Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.K.3
The Standard
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings and major events in a story 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
- Listen to a story and use the pictures to name who is in it and where it happens. With teacher questions, tell the main events in order.
What Mastery Looks Like
- After hearing The Three Little Pigs, a child can name the pigs and the wolf and point to where the pigs are in each scene. With picture cards, they can put the house scenes in order and say why the pigs move to the next house.
Common Misconceptions
- Children may name a house as a character or call the wolf the setting. They may focus on a small detail, like a pig's hat, instead of the wolf blowing down a house. They may put the house scenes in the wrong order.
How to Assess It
- Show the page where the wolf reaches the straw house. Ask, “Who is here? Where are they? What happens next?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Use straw, craft sticks, and blocks to build three houses, then move pig and wolf puppets through each story event.
Show the straw-house page and ask, “Who is there, where are they, and why does the pig run away?”
Play a story-card sort: children place pig, wolf, house, and blowing-down pictures under Who, Where, or What Happened.
After recess, ask children to name who played, where they played, and one thing that happened before the bell rang.
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Related Standards
- RL.1.3
Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details in order to make meaning of the story development.
- RI.K.3
With prompting and support, identify the individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information presented over the course of a text.
- RL.1.6
With prompting and support, identify who is telling the story at various points in 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.
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