South Dakota ELA K.RL.1

ELAKindergartenReading Literature

The Standard

Ask and answer questions about story elements in a text read aloud with prompting and support.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025) · Key Ideas and Details

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Children listen to a story read aloud. With teacher prompts, they ask and answer questions about the characters, where the story happens, and what happens.
What Mastery Looks Like: A child can ask a clear question, such as "Who went into the house?" They can answer a question using something they heard or saw in the book.
Common Misconceptions: Some children guess from the cover instead of using what happened in the story. Others mix up characters or tell events out of order.
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 one question about the page.

Lesson moves

Move paper pig puppets between drawings of the three houses, then have partners ask who lives in each house.
After reading, ask, "Which house did the wolf visit last?" Have children point to a picture as they answer.
Make cards with questions about the read-aloud, such as "Where did it happen?" Let children draw and answer one using the pictures.
Read The Mitten aloud, then ask where Nicki lost his mitten, like asking where a missing glove was last seen at school.

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