Maryland ELA RI.K.2

ELAKindergartenReading Informational Text

The Standard

With modeling, prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of an informational text.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Listen to a short nonfiction read-aloud and name what it is mostly about. With a prompt or picture cue, retell a few facts from the text.
What Mastery Looks Like: After hearing a page about plants, a child says it is about plants. They can tell you that plants need water and sunlight, with a prompt if needed.
Common Misconceptions: A child may say the topic is water because the text mentions water. They may also give a fact they already know instead of a detail from the text.
How to Assess It: Read aloud: “Plants need water. Plants need sunlight. Plants grow from seeds.” Ask, “What is this mostly about? Tell me two things the page says.”

Lesson moves

After the plant read-aloud, have children place picture cards of water, sunlight, and seeds beside the matching sentences.
Ask partners, “Is this page mostly about plants or water? What did you hear that helped you decide?”
Play “Heard It” with picture cards of water, sunlight, and ice cream; children pick the details they heard in the plant read-aloud.
Water a classroom plant, then ask children which detail from the plant page matches what they just did.

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