Critical Content
Power Standards
- Retell fiction text describing characters, setting and major events in a story through text read aloud or shared reading. (RL. K.2 & SL K.2 & K.4)
- Retell nonfiction text describing individuals, events and pieces of information through text read aloud or shared reading. (RI K.2 & SL K.2 & K.4)
- Compare and contrast the experiences of characters in stories referring explicitly to the text. (RL K.9)
Power Standards Critical Content
In the language of instruction, students will…
- Retell stories using key details
- Pick the main topic of the story when given choices
- Retell the key details of a text
- Ask and answer questions about key details of information presented in multiple ways
- Describe people, places, things, and events with details
*”text” refers to any content introduced through written text, audio, visual media (charts, graphs, diagrams, pictures, video, web pages, etc.)
*”explicit evidence” includes direct quotes, graphic details, paraphrasing, summary of author’s words/ideas
Additional Critical Content
- Explain that a key detail is an important part of the text
- Ask and answer questions before, during, and after reading a text
- Name characters, setting, and events of a story
- Talk about how:
- Two individuals in a story are connected
- How two events are connected in a story
- How two ideas are connected in a story
- How two pieces of information are connected in a story (cause/effect)
- Find, ask and answer questions and meanings of words not known
- Recognize when a text is a storybook, poem, play, etc.
- Find the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book
- Locate the authors and illustrators and explain that authors write text and illustrators create pictures
- Look at the illustrations, text and story and describe what one sees
- Identify the part of a text shown by the illustration and explain how illustrations help one understand a story
- With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts)
- Identify the points an author makes in a text (e.g., Everyone should recycle)
- Tell what is the same and different about two texts and how the adventures and experiences of a character are alike and different
- Actively engaged in in-group reading activities with purpose and understanding
- Talk about a story with other students and listen to what other students have to say about it
- Follow the rules the teacher gives for listening
- Listen by facing the speaker, sitting still, and making eye contact
- Ask and answer questions about what is being read
- Share one’s ideas and listen to the ideas of others
- Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems)
Preparing all students for success
