Maryland ELA RI.K.1

ELAKindergartenReading Informational Text

The Standard

With modeling, prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in an informational text.

Maryland College and Career Ready Standards for English Language Arts (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: After a teacher reads a nonfiction page aloud, children ask a question about a detail on the page. They answer questions using the words or pictures, with help when needed.
What Mastery Looks Like: After hearing a page about bees, a child asks, 'What do bees collect?' They answer 'nectar' and point to where the page shows or tells them.
Common Misconceptions: Children may ask about something the page does not cover, like whether bees sleep. They may answer from what they already know instead of checking the page.
How to Assess It: Read aloud, 'Bees visit flowers to collect nectar.' Prompt each child to ask one question about the sentence, then answer, 'What do bees collect?'

Lesson moves

Print 'Bees visit flowers to collect nectar' beside a bee photo; have pairs point to the flower and circle the word 'nectar.'
Read the bee sentence aloud and ask, 'What could we ask about bees?' Have partners ask and answer using the sentence.
Match question cards, 'What do bees collect?' and 'Where do bees go?', to answer cards labeled 'nectar' and 'flowers.'
Show a photo of a bee on a flower, read the bee sentence, and ask what the photo helps children answer.

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