State Curriculum - Reading

 
Grade PK
Standard 3.0 Comprehension of Literary Text: Students will read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate literary texts.
A. Comprehension of Literary Text
1. Develop comprehension skills by listening to a variety of self-selected and assigned literary texts
a. Listen to and discuss a variety of literary texts representing diverse cultures, perspectives, and ethnicities
b. Listen to and discuss a variety of different types of fictional literary text, such as stories, poems, nursery rhymes, realistic fiction, and fairy tales
2. Use text features to facilitate understanding of literary texts
a. Identify and explain how the title contributes to meaning
b. Identify and explain how text features, such as illustrations, punctuation, and print features, contribute to meaning
3. Use elements of narrative texts to facilitate understanding
a. Identify the beginning and end of a story
b. Identify the characters of a story
4. Use elements of poetry to facilitate understanding
a. Identify rhyme, rhythm, and repetition in poems read to them
5. Use elements of drama to facilitate understanding
a. Recognize that a play has characters, dialogue, scenery, and tells a story
6. Determine important ideas and messages in literary texts
a. Retell the story by sequencing the main events
b. Identify a personal connection to the text
 

Indicators/objectives that include assessment limits are assessed on MSA *New Standards identifies the need for students to process 1 million words per year to maintain academic progress.

 

MSDE has developed a toolkit for these standards which can be found online at: http://mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/reading/vsc_toolkit.html.

 

11/15/07