Maryland ELA RL.K.3

ELAKindergartenReading Literature

The Standard

With modeling, prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

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 name who is in it and where it happens. With picture clues or questions, they tell the big things that happen.
What Mastery Looks Like: A child names the pigs and wolf, points to the houses as places in the story, and tells what the wolf does. With a picture cue, they pick a big event over a small detail.
Common Misconceptions: Children may think only people can be characters, not animals. They may name a chair as the setting instead of the room it is in. They may recall a small action but miss an event that changes the story.
How to Assess It: After reading The Three Little Pigs, show pictures of the pigs, wolf, houses, and wolf blowing down a house. Ask, 'Who is in the story? Where are they? What big thing happened?'

Lesson moves

Give pairs picture cards of a pig, a house, and a wolf blowing down a house to sort under Who, Where, and What Happened.
After reading The Three Little Pigs, ask, 'What did the pigs do after the wolf blew down a house?' Have children tell a partner.
Play story match with Goldilocks cards: children match Goldilocks to character, the bears' house to place, and the broken chair to event.
Show a photo of children playing tag at recess; ask who is there, where they are, and what is happening.

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