Maryland ELA RI.K.3

ELAKindergartenReading Informational Text

The Standard

With modeling, prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students listen to an informational book and identify two people, events, or facts in it. With teacher prompts and pictures, they tell how the two are connected, rather than just naming them.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given pictures of a seed and a sprout, a student says, “The seed grows into a sprout.” With a prompt, they point to a page that shows the connection.
Common Misconceptions: Students may name both pictures without saying how they relate. They may say that water helps a plant because they know it from home, even when the book gives a different connection to describe.
How to Assess It: After reading a short nonfiction book about plants, show pictures of a seed and a sprout. Ask, “How are these connected?” and let students point to the book as they answer.

Lesson moves

After reading a book about bean plants, have students link seed and sprout picture cards with yarn and explain the link.
Show the page where roots take in water and ask, “How does the water get into the plant?”
Play a matching game with picture pairs from the book, then have students say how each pair connects.
Put a soaked bean in a clear cup with a damp paper towel, then ask students how the sprout relates to the bean.

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