Maryland ELA RL.K.2

ELAKindergartenReading Literature

The Standard

With modeling, prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: After hearing a familiar story, children tell it back in their own words. They use teacher questions or pictures to help them name the characters and tell the main events in order.
What Mastery Looks Like: With a picture or a teacher prompt, a child can tell what happened first, next, and last. The child includes key events without needing to repeat every word.
Common Misconceptions: Some children name the characters or describe one picture but do not tell what happened. Others mix up the order, skip the ending, or add events from a different version.
How to Assess It: Show each child three pictures from The Three Little Pigs in mixed order. Ask them to put the pictures in order and tell the story, prompting, 'What happened next?' if needed.

Lesson moves

Give pairs paper pig, wolf, and house cutouts to move as they retell The Three Little Pigs.
Show the first and last pictures from The Three Little Pigs; ask partners, 'What happened between these pictures?'
Play Fix the Story: place three picture cards in the wrong order, then have children correct the order and retell.
Send home a three-picture story strip and ask children to use it to tell The Three Little Pigs to someone at home.

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