K.7
Knowledge and Skills Statement (Standard Cluster)
The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
Cluster contents
Student Expectations in This Statement
K.7 is a knowledge and skills statement. These are the student expectations under it.
- K.7.A
discuss topics and determine the basic theme using text evidence with adult assistance
- K.7.B
identify and describe the main characters
- K.7.C
describe the elements of plot development, including the main events, the problem, and the resolution for texts read aloud with adult assistance
- K.7.D
describe the setting.
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students listen to stories and talk about the main characters, setting, important events, problem, and solution. They name the story's topic and work with an adult to state its lesson or message. They point to pictures or events that support their thinking.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students name and describe the main character and tell where and when the story happens. They retell the key events in order and explain the problem and solution. With a teacher prompt, they state a simple lesson and support it with an event from the story.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name any person or animal in the story as the main character. They may confuse the setting with an event or call the topic, such as friendship, the story's lesson. They may retell every detail instead of naming the main events, problem, and solution.
How to Assess It
- After a short read-aloud, ask students to draw the main character, setting, problem, and solution. Have each student state the story's lesson and point to one picture or event that supports it.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs picture cards from a familiar story to place on a character, setting, problem, events, and solution story mat.
Ask, “What did the character learn, and which event shows that lesson?” Record student answers beside a book illustration.
Play Story Element Corners by labeling room corners character, setting, problem, and solution, then reading details students must classify.
Connect plot to a playground problem by having students describe what happened, who was involved, where it occurred, and how it was solved.
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