Maryland ELA RL.K.1

ELAKindergartenReading Literature

The Standard

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

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: After hearing a story, children ask questions about its characters, places, and events. With teacher prompts, they answer using details from the words or pictures.
What Mastery Looks Like: A child asks, 'Who built the brick house?' and answers a classmate's question by pointing to a story page. Their answer matches what happens in the story.
Common Misconceptions: Children may answer from what they know about pigs instead of what happened in the story. They may guess what happens next when asked what already happened.
How to Assess It: After reading The Three Little Pigs, show the brick-house page. Ask each child, 'Who built this house?' Then prompt them to ask you one question about the page.

Lesson moves

Give pairs pig, wolf, and house cutouts; have them show the brick-house scene and ask partners, 'Who is inside?'
Show the straw-house page and ask, 'What did the wolf do?' Have partners answer, then ask each other a question about the page.
Draw who, what, and where cards; children ask a question about The Three Little Pigs and partners answer using a story page.
Show a photo of a brick house; ask, 'Which pig built a house like this?' Have children find the matching story page.

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