G.K – Reading Literature Standards Map

This text resource illustrates the Standards Map for the Grade Kindergarten Reading Literature strand in the Common Core State Standards.

1. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL
   

   Reading Literature

2. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.1
   

   Key Ideas and Details

   Content	Skills	Learning Targets	Big Ideas	Essential Questions
   Reading Key Ideas Details	None Available	None Available	None Available	None Available

3. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.1 > S.1
   

   With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

   Content	Skills	Learning Targets	Big Ideas	Essential Questions
   Text Details Questions Prompts Support	1 - Ask (Questions) 1 - Answer (Questions)	1 - I can ask questions about key details in a text with prompting and support. 1 - I can answer questions about key details in a text with prompting and support.	A. Finding things that are important helps in understanding a story. B. By recognizing details, I answer overall questions about characters, plot, setting and conflict.	A.1 How do I recognize key details in a text? B.1 Why do I need to recognize key details?

4. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.1 > S.2
   

   With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

   Content	Skills	Learning Targets	Big Ideas	Essential Questions
   Key Details Prompts Support Familiar stories	1 - Retell (Familiar stories)	1 - I can retell familiar stories including key details with prompting and support.	A. Retelling a story requires recognizing and retelling main happenings.	A.1 How do I retell a story?

5. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.1 > S.3
   

   With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

   Content	Skills	Learning Targets	Big Ideas	Essential Questions
   Story Characters Settings Major events Prompts Support	1 - Identify (Characters) 1 - Identify (Settings) 1 - Identify (Events)	1 - I can identify characters in a story with prompting and support. 1 - I can identify settings in a story with prompting and support. 1 - I can identify major events in a story with prompting and support.	A. Characters, settings, and major events define what a story is all about. B. Characters are described and presented by relationships with other characters and by actions. C. Readers look for key details about places and features of the locations and time of a story. D. Stories build on a sequence of events and usually a problem is solved.	A.1 How do I begin to recognize main ideas of a story? B.1 How do I know who the main characters are? C.1 How can I know where and when the story takes place? D.1 How can I recognize what happened in the story?

6. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.2
   

   Craft and Structure

   Content	Skills	Learning Targets	Big Ideas	Essential Questions
   Reading Craft Structure	None Available	None Available	None Available	None Available

7. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.2 > S.4
   

   Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

   Content	Skills	Learning Targets	Big Ideas	Essential Questions
   Text Questions Unknown words	1 - Ask (Questions) 1 - Answer (Questions)	1 - I can ask questions about unknown words in a text. 1 - I can answer questions about unknown words in a text.	A. In order to learn more about unknown words, ask and answer questions about the word and the whole sentence or context. B. Readers recognize function of words (question, description, or action). Content words help readers focus attention and form pictures in their heads.	A.1 How can I figure out an unknown word and learn more about it? B.1 What do readers need know about an unknown word in order to answer questions about it?

8. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.2 > S.5
   Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).

   Content	Skills	Learning Targets	Big Ideas	Essential Questions
   Text Types Common types Storybooks Poems	1 - Recognize (Text types, e.g., storybooks, poems)	1 - I can recognize common types of text. 1 - I can recognize storybooks. 1 - I can recognize poems.	A. Texts teach lessons, compare, contrast, warn about dangers, share experiences or descriptions to get readers to think or act. B. Varying texts have varying purposes.	A.1 What are examples of text types? How can they be used? B.1 Why are there different text types?

9. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.2 > S.6
   

   With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.

   Content	Skills	Learning Targets	Big Ideas	Essential Questions
   Story Author's role Illustrator's role	1 - Name (Story Author) 1 - Name (Story illustrator) 2 - Define (role of author) 2 - Define (role of Illustrator)	2 - I can name the author of a story. 2 - I can name the illustrator of a story. 2 - I can define the role of the author in telling a story. 2 - I can define the role of the illustrator in telling a story.	A. Telling a story can involve both authors and illustrators (artists), and their point of view shapes the presentation. B. Both graphics and text combined help readers better see and understand texts such as stories.	A.1 What is an author? What do they contribute to telling a story? B.1 How do text and illustrations combine to tell a story?

10. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.3
    

    Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

    Content	Skills	Learning Targets	Big Ideas	Essential Questions
    Reading Integration Knowledge Ideas	None Available	None Available	None Available	None Available

11. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.3 > S.7
    

    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).

    Content	Skills	Learning Targets	Big Ideas	Essential Questions
    Relationship Illustrations Text	2 - Describe (Relationship between illustrations and texts)	2 - I can describe, with prompting and support, the relationship between illustrations and the text.	A. Texts illustrations may emphasize ideas or show people, places, sequence of events, actions, or times.	A.1 How are ideas in a text emphasized?

12. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.3 > S.8
    

    (Not applicable to literature)

13. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.3 > S.9
    

    With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

    Content	Skills	Learning Targets	Big Ideas	Essential Questions
    Characters Adventures Experiences Familiar stories	2 - Compare (Adventures and experiences of characters) 2 - Contrast (Adventures and experiences of characters)	2 - I can, with support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories. 2 - I can, with prompting and support, compare the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.	A. Similarities and differences in actions, settings, characters and responses can be studied to relate two stories.	A.1 How can familiar stories be compared or contrasted?

14. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.4
    

    Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

    Content	Skills	Learning Targets	Big Ideas	Essential Questions
    Reading Range Level Text Complexity	None Available	None Available	None Available	None Available

15. Common Core English Language Arts: G.K > RL > A.4 > S.10
    

    Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

    Content	Skills	Learning Targets	Big Ideas	Essential Questions
    Reading Activities Group Purpose Understanding	3 - Engage (In group reading activities)	3 - I can actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.	A. Readers approach activities with a purpose and bring past understanding to help with shared comprehension of new ideas .	A.1 Why do I participate in group reading activities?