Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
Kindergarten–Grade 5
Reading: Literature
Kindergarten
Key Ideas and Details
RL.K.1
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.2
With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
RL.K.3
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RL.K.7
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Grade 2
Key Ideas and Details
RL.2.2
Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RL.2.7
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
RL.2.9
Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
Grade 3
Key Ideas and Details
RL.3.2
Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RL.3.7
Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
RL.3.9
Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).
Writing
Kindergarten
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
W.K.7
Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them).
W.K.8
With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Grade 1
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
W.1.8
With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Ohio English Language Arts Standards (2001)
Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies Standard
Benchmarks (K–3)
C.
Draw conclusions from information in text.
D.
Apply reading skills and strategies to summarize and compare and contrast information in text, between text and across subject areas.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade Kindergarten)
6.
Compare information (e.g., recognize similarities) in texts using prior knowledge and experience.
7.
Recall information from a story by sequencing pictures and events.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 1)
5.
Compare information (e.g., recognize similarities) in texts with prior knowledge and experience.
6.
Recall the important ideas in fictional and non-fictional texts.
7.
Create and use graphic organizers such as Venn diagrams or webs, with teacher assistance, to demonstrate comprehension.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 2)
3.
Compare and contrast information in texts with prior knowledge and experience.
4.
Summarize text by recalling main ideas and some supporting details.
Reading Applications: Literary Text Standard
Benchmarks (K–3)
A.
Compare and contrast plot across literary works.
B.
Use supporting details to identify and describe main ideas, characters and setting.
C.
Recognize the defining characteristics and features of different types of literary forms and genres.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade Kindergarten)
2.
Identify the characters and setting in a story.
3.
Retell or re-enact a story that has been heard.
5.
Recognize predictable patterns in stories.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 1)
1.
Provide own interpretation of story, using information from the text.
2.
Identify characters, setting and events in a story.
3.
Retell the beginning, middle and ending of a story, including its important events.
5.
Recognize predictable patterns in stories and poems.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 2)
1.
Compare and contrast different versions of the same story.
2.
Describe characters and setting.
3.
Retell the plot of a story.
4.
Distinguish between stories, poems, plays, fairy tales and fables.
Writing Applications Standard
Benchmarks (3–4)
B.
Write responses to literature that summarize main ideas and significant details and support interpretations with references to the text.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 1)
2.
Write responses to stories that include simple judgments about the text.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 2)
2.
Write responses to stories by comparing text to other texts, or to people or events in their own lives.