Reading Standards for Literature (K-5)

• Ask and answer such questions about key details of a text. (RL 1.1)
• Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. (RL 1.2)
• Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. (RL 1.3)
• Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. (RL 1.4)
• Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, settings or events. (RL 1.7)
• Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details of a text. (RL 2.1)
• Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. (RL 2.2)
• Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. (RL 2.3)
• Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. (RL 2.4)
• Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. (RL 2.5)
• Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud. (RL 2.6)
• Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. (RL 2.7)

Speaking and Listening Standards (K-5)

• Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. (SL 1.1)
• Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. (SL 1.2)
• Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly. (SL 1.4)
• Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. (SL 1.5)
• Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. (SL 1.2)
• Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. (SL 2.2)
• Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences. (SL 2.4)
• Add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. (SL 2.5)

Discussion Questions

• What differences do you see in the standards from one grade to the next?
• How would you modify this Grade 1 lesson if you wanted to use it with Grade 2 students?