Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.2.3
The Standard
Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges in order to make meaning of the story development.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Key Ideas and Details
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify a big event or problem in a story. They describe what a character says, does, or feels in response and explain what happens next.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can point to a page that shows how a character responds to a problem. They can use a detail from the words or pictures to explain how that response shapes the next part of the story.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may retell every event without linking a character's response to a particular problem. They may say a character was scared but leave out what the character did next.
How to Assess It
- After reading The Three Little Pigs, ask: “What did the first pig do when the wolf blew down the straw house? What happened because of that choice?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Build straw and block houses; read The Three Little Pigs, then move a paper pig to show its response when the straw house falls.
Ask: “Why did the first pig run to the stick house, and what happened because of that choice?”
Match Three Billy Goats Gruff cards showing each goat meeting the troll with its reply; partners explain what happens next.
Write about a recess game going wrong, your response, and what happened next; compare your response with the first pig's.
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Related Standards
- RL.K.3
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings and major events in a story in order to make meaning of the story development.
- RL.3.3
Describe characters in a story, including but not limited to their traits, motivations, actions or feelings, and how they affect the plot.
- RL.1.3
Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details in order to make meaning of the story development.
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