Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.K.5

ELAKindergartenReading Literature

The Standard

With prompting and support, identify structures of common literary text (e.g., stories, poems and dramas).

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Craft and Structure

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: With a read-aloud and picture cues, children tell whether a text is a story, poem, or play. They notice a story's events, a poem's lines, and a play's speaking parts.
What Mastery Looks Like: After hearing three short texts, a child names each kind and points to a clue. They can show where a poem's lines break and tell who speaks in a play.
Common Misconceptions: Children may call every read-aloud a story, even when it has poem lines or speaking parts. They may think all poems rhyme or that a play must have a stage.
How to Assess It: Read aloud a short picture story, a four-line poem, and a two-speaker script. Ask, “Which is a story, a poem, or a play? Point to one clue for each.”

Lesson moves

Give pairs three printed cards, a picture story, a four-line poem, and a two-speaker script; have them sort the cards and circle clues.
Read a poem and a short story aloud; ask, “What do you notice about the poem's lines and the story's events?”
Play Find the Clue with three text cards; children point to poem lines, story events, or a character's spoken words.
Show a library storybook, a nursery rhyme page, and a puppet-show script; ask which one children would read or act out.

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