Kindergarten Literary Text Standards
Listen for and identify setting, beginning,
middle, and end of familiar stories with
assistance.
Listen to and identify the main idea.
Listen to, read, and discuss text from
different cultures and time periods with
assistance.
Respond to who, what, when, where, and
why questions.
With prompting and support, ask, and
answer questions about key details in a text.
With prompting and support, retell familiar
stories, including key details.
With prompting and support, identify
characters, settings, and major events in a
story.
Ask and answer questions about unknown
words in a text.
Recognize common types of texts (e.g.,
storybooks, poems).
With prompting and support, name the
author, and illustrator of a story and define
the role of each in telling the story.
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).
Move to comparing and contrasting the
adventures and experiences of characters in
familiar stories, with prompting and support.
Actively engage in group reading activities
with purpose and understanding.
First Grade Literary Text Standards
Making connections to self, other text,
and/or the world, with assistance.
Listening for and identifying setting and
sequence of events, with assistance.
Using information to answer specific
questions, with assistance.
Identifying and describing physical and
personality traits: listening for and
identifying setting, and sequence of events,
with assistance.
Identify examples of sensory words, with
assistance.
Using after reading strategies based on text
and purpose to orally recall details and orally
restate main idea.
Identifying first-person point of view, with
assistance.
Move to asking and answering questions
about key details in a text.
Move to retelling familiar stories, including
key details, and demonstrating
understanding of their central message or
lesson.
Move toward using illustrations and details in
a story to describe its characters, setting, or
events.
Move to describing characters, settings, and
major events in a story, using key details.
Move to comparing and contrasting the
adventures and experiences of characters in
stories.
Move to identifying who is telling the story at
various points in a text.
Move to identifying words and phrases in
stories or poems that suggest feelings or
appeal to the senses.
Explain major differences between books
that tell stories and books that give
information, drawing on a wide reading of a
range of text types.
With prompting and support, read prose and
poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
Second Grade Literary Text Standards
Using information to answer specific
questions.
Reading and discussing texts from different
cultures and time periods.
Identifying a lesson learned based on a
character’s actions, with assistance.
Identifying the effects of rhythm and rhyme
in text; identifying examples of alliteration,
with assistance.
Identifying setting and sequence of events.
Describing a character’s physical and
personality traits; identifying setting and
sequence of events.
Making connections to self, other texts
and/or the world.
Move to asking and answering such
questions as who, what, when, where, why,
and how to demonstrate understanding of
key details in text.
Move to recounting stories, including fables
and folktales from diverse cultures, and
determining their central message, lesson, or
moral.
Move to describing how characters in a story
respond to major events and challenges.
Move to describing how words and phrases
(e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes,
repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning
in a story, poem, or song.
Move to describing the overall structure of a
story, including describing how the beginning
introduces the story and the ending
concludes the action.
Acknowledge differences in the points of
view of characters, including by speaking in a
different voice for each character when
reading dialogue aloud.
Move to using information gained from
illustrations and words in print or digital text
to demonstrate understanding of its
characters, setting, or plot.
Move to comparing and contrasting two or
more versions of the same story (e.g.,
Cinderella stories) by different authors or
from different cultures.
By the end of the year, read and comprehend
literature, including stories and poetry, in the
grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently,
with scaffolding as needed at the high end of
the range.
Kindergarten Expository Text Standards
Listen to and gain information from text
using illustrations and titles with assistance.
Listen to and identify the topic; listen to and
describe sequential order.
Listen to, read, and discuss text from
different cultures and time periods with
assistance.
Listen to and use information to answer
specific questions.
Listen to and follow pictorial and written
directions to complete tasks with assistance.
Distinguish between statements and
questions.
With prompting and support, ask, and
answer questions about key details in a text.
With prompting and support, identify the
main topic and retell key details of a text.
With prompting and support, describe the
connection between two individuals, events,
ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
With prompting and support, ask and answer
questions about unknown words in a text.
Identify the front cover, back cover, and title
page of a book.
Name the author and illustrator of a text and
define the role of each in presenting the
ideas or information in a text.
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).
With prompting and support, identify the
reasons an author gives to support points in
a text.
With prompting and support, identify basic
similarities in and differences between two
texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations,
descriptions, or procedures).
Actively engage in group reading activities
with purpose and understanding.
First Grade Expository Text Standards
Using information to answer specific
questions, with assistance.
Identifying the purpose of and gaining
information from illustrations, graphs, charts,
titles, text boxes, diagrams, headings, and
table of contents, with assistance.
Identify the topic and describing the
sequential order.
Making connections to self, other texts,
and/or the world, with assistance.
Using resources to find and/or confirm
meaning of unknown words encountered in
text.
Identifying the purpose of and gaining
information from illustrations, with
assistance.
Move to asking and answering questions
about key details in a text.
Move to asking and answering questions to
help determine or clarify the meaning of
words and phrases in a text.
Describe the connection between two
individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of
information in a text.
Move to using the illustrations and details in
a text to describe its key ideas.
Move to identifying basic similarities in and
differences between two texts on the same
topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or
procedures)
Move to identifying the main topic and
retelling key details of a text.
Move to knowing and using various text
features (e.g., headings, table of contents,
glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate
key facts or information in a text.
Distinguish between information provided by
pictures or other illustrations and
information provided by the words in a text.
Identify the reasons an author gives to
support points in a text.
With prompting and support, read
informational texts appropriately complex
for grade 1.
Second Grade Expository Text Standards
Using information to answer specific
questions.
Explaining the topic.
Identifying content-specific vocabulary in
text, with assistance.
Identifying the purpose of and gaining
information from glossaries, headings, boldfaced words, and indexes.
Identifying the purpose of and/or gaining
information from diagrams.
Making connections to self, other text and/or
the world, with assistance.
Move to asking and answering such
questions as who, what, when, where, why,
and how to demonstrate understanding of
key details in text.
With prompting and support, identify the
main topic and retell key details of a text.
Move to identifying the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific
paragraphs within the text.
Describe the connection between a series of
historical events, scientific ideas or concepts,
or steps in technical procedures in a text.
Move to knowing and using various text
features (e.g., captions, bold print,
subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic
menus, icons) to locate key facts or
information in a text efficiently.
Identify the main purpose of a text, including
what the author wants to answer, explain, or
describe.
Move to explaining how specific images (e.g.,
diagram showing how a machine works)
contribute to and clarify a text.
Describe how reasons support specific points
the author makes in a text.
Move to comparing and contrasting the most
important points presented by two texts on
the same topic.
By the end of the year, read and comprehend
informational texts, including history/social
studies, science, and technical texts, in the
grades 2-3 complexity band proficiently, with
scaffolding as needed at the high end of the
range.