Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.K.2
The Standard
With prompting and support, orally recognize key details from a literary text to demonstrate understanding of the lesson in the story.
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
- Children listen to a story and name something a character did. With a question or picture cue, they say how that action helps show what the story teaches.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A child says the mouse chewed through the net to free the lion. When asked what that shows, they say even someone small can help someone big.
Common Misconceptions
- Some children tell every event in order instead of choosing one that shows the lesson. Others say the lesson is that mice chew rope, or mix up who rescues whom.
How to Assess It
- After reading The Lion and the Mouse, ask: “What did the mouse do when the lion was trapped? What does that show about who can help?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a toy lion, a paper mouse, and yarn; have them act out the rescue and say what it shows.
Ask, “Why did the mouse chew the net? What can the lion learn from the mouse?”
Show pictures of the sleeping lion, trapped lion, and rescuing mouse; children pick the detail that shows the lesson and explain.
Show a photo of a child helping an adult carry groceries; ask how it connects to the mouse helping the lion.
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Related Standards
- RI.1.2
With prompting and support, recognize key details from an informational text to demonstrate understanding of the central idea of a text.
- RL.1.2
With prompting and support, recognize key details from a literary text to demonstrate understanding of the author’s message, lesson learned and/or moral.
- RI.K.2
With prompting and support, orally recognize key details from an informational text to demonstrate understanding of the central idea of a text.
- RL.K.5
With prompting and support, identify structures of common literary text (e.g., stories, poems and dramas).
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