ELA Kindergarten Literature

Description

• With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about a story's key details (e.g., what is the cow doing in Goodnight Moon?)

• With prompting and support, identify and retell major events including beginning, middle, and end of a story

• Retell familiar stories with prompting and support including key events and details

• Ask and answer questions to clarify the meanings of words when listening to literary texts, and apply foundational skills and strategies when encountering new vocabulary (e.g., use context clues, apply decoding strategies)

• Identify the senses to which specific words or descriptions appeal

• With prompting and support, describe how illustrations relate to the story in which they appear

• Begin to read and engage with books independently as well as in groups

• With assistance, confirm or correct understanding of a text by using illustrations and other strategies (e.g., looking back, checking for clues)