Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.K.9

ELAKindergartenReading Literature

The Standard

With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: After listening to two stories, children tell what happens to a character in each one. With picture cues or questions, they say how the characters’ experiences are alike and different.
What Mastery Looks Like: A child can say the brick-house pig and the little red hen both work to make something. They can explain that the pig builds a house, while the hen bakes bread.
Common Misconceptions: Children may compare how characters look instead of what they do or experience. They may retell each story without saying what the characters have in common.
How to Assess It: Show pictures of the brick-house pig and the little red hen. Ask, "What did they both do? What did each one make?"

Lesson moves

Read The Three Little Pigs and The Little Red Hen, then place brick, bread, and work picture cards on a pig-and-hen Venn mat.
Have partners point to book pictures and explain how the pig and hen both worked, then name what each made.
Play picture match with pig and hen action cards; children hold up "same" for making things and "different" for bricks versus bread.
Show photos of a baker making bread and a builder making a house; ask how their work is like the hen’s and the pig’s.

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