Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.2.7

ELA2nd GradeReading Literature

The Standard

Use a story’s illustrations and words in print/non-print texts to demonstrate understanding of characters, setting and plot.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students use a story’s words and pictures together to tell who is in it, where it happens, and what happens. They can do this with a book or a story on a screen.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student names the character and setting, then explains an event in order. They point to a detail in the picture and a detail in the words that support their answer.
Common Misconceptions: Students may guess what happens from the picture without reading the words. They may name a place as an event, or assume a character feels happy just because the picture is colorful.
How to Assess It: Read the page in The Snowy Day where Peter makes snow angels. Ask, “What is Peter doing? What do the words tell you, and what does the picture show?”

Lesson moves

Give pairs three illustrated pages from The Snowy Day and matching text strips to pair, order, and explain.
After reading The Snowy Day, ask, “What tells us Peter is outside: the words, the pictures, or both?”
Play picture-and-word match with cards showing story events and sentence cards describing those events.
Have students draw and caption a real recess event, then swap pages and identify the setting and event from both clues.

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