1st Grade CCSS: Reading: Literature

For first graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a fictional text. No matter what they are reading, the standards require students to increase the complexity in the texts they read and deepen their understanding of the connections within and between texts. Among the complete standards for this grade, first graders will be asked to: retell stories and show they understand key details and central lessons, identify characters, settings, and major events using key details, identify words that deal with feelings or sensory experiences, identify who is telling a story, use illustrations in a story to describe characters, setting or plot, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories, and read poetry and prose of grade appropriate complexity.