1.8.D
ELA1st GradeThe student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts.
The Standard
describe the setting.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students tell where and when a story happens. They use words and pictures to describe the place, time, weather, or season.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name the place and time of a story. The student can point to words or pictures that support the answer.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name a character or event instead of the setting. They may tell only where the story happens and leave out when. They may add details that the words or pictures do not support.
How to Assess It
- After reading a familiar picture book, ask, “Where and when does the story happen? Show one word or picture detail that helped you.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have pairs build the story’s place with blocks, then add two labels showing clues from the words or pictures.
Ask students to draw the setting and complete, “The story happens in ___ during ___.”
Play a matching game using setting picture cards and clue cards such as snow, stars, school desks, or beach towels.
Visit the playground in the morning and afternoon, then list details that show how its setting changes with time.
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