South Dakota ELA K.RL.2

ELAKindergartenReading Literature

The Standard

Retell familiar stories, including story elements 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 tell who is in a familiar story, where it happens, and what happens first, next, and last. They can use pictures and teacher prompts to help.
What Mastery Looks Like: A child names the pigs and wolf, identifies the houses, and tells the main events in order. With a picture cue, they explain how the pigs stay safe at the end.
Common Misconceptions: Some children name the pigs and wolf but leave out what they did. Others put the brick house first or confuse a character with the place where the story happens.
How to Assess It: Show three house pictures after reading The Three Little Pigs. Ask, "Who was in the story? Where did it happen? Tell me what happened first, next, and last."

Lesson moves

Give children paper pigs, a wolf, and three house cutouts to move as they retell The Three Little Pigs.
Ask partners, "Why did the pigs go to the brick house? What happened just before that?"
Shuffle three house picture cards, then have children put them in story order and say what happened at each house.
Send home the three house cards so children can retell the story to someone at home.

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