Maryland ELA RL.K.10

ELAKindergartenReading Literature

The Standard

With prompting, modeling, and support, read literary texts appropriately complex for kindergarten.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Children read along with kindergarten stories and poems as the teacher models. They use pictures, repeated lines, and teacher prompts to make sense of the text.
What Mastery Looks Like: During a shared reading, a child joins in on a repeated line and tells what happened on a page. When stuck, the child tries the line again with the teacher.
Common Misconceptions: Some children think the picture tells them the exact words, so they make up a sentence without looking at the print. Others repeat a memorized line even when the words on the page change.
How to Assess It: Show a page from a familiar picture book. Ask each child to point to the words as you read together, join in on a repeated line, and tell what happened on that page.

Lesson moves

During a shared reading, give children printed sentence strips to place beside matching pages and read with you.
Read a page from The Little Red Hen and ask, 'What happened here, and what helped you tell?'
Play echo reading with a rhyming book: point to a line, read it aloud, then have children repeat it while pointing.
Set up a pretend library with three picture books; children check out one and read a favorite page with a partner.

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