South Dakota ELA K.RL.3

ELAKindergartenReading Literature

The Standard

Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story with prompting and support.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students name the characters and tell where a story happens. With questions or pictures to help, they describe the big things that happen.
What Mastery Looks Like: After hearing The Three Little Pigs, a student names the pigs and the wolf and points to the houses. They tell how the wolf blows down two houses but not the brick house.
Common Misconceptions: Students may describe what a character looks like but not what that character does. They may name a house as something that happened, or focus on a small detail instead of a main event.
How to Assess It: After reading The Three Little Pigs, show the brick-house page. Ask, “Who is here, where are they, and what happens when the wolf tries to blow the house down?”

Lesson moves

Give pairs pig, wolf, house, and event picture cards from The Three Little Pigs to sort into who, where, and what happened.
At the brick-house page, ask, “Where is the wolf, who is inside, and what happens when he blows?”
Play picture-card bingo: describe a character, place, or event from The Three Little Pigs, and have children cover the matching picture.
After recess, ask children who played, where they played, and what happened, then compare their answers with The Three Little Pigs.

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