Kindergarten Reading: Literature (CCSS)

For Kindergarteners, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a fictional text like a storybook or poem. 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. Those goals can be met with support and prompting. Among the complete standards for this grade, kindergarteners will be asked to: retell familiar stories, identify characters, settings, and major events, answer questions about new words, name the author and illustrator of a story, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories, and engage in group reading activities.