Instruction in the standards requires a focus not only on the learner concepts and competencies but the supportive practices employed by the adults in the classroom setting. 

Concepts and Competencies

The learner will:

• Recount stories in sequential order with key details
• Identify the central message (big idea), moral, or lesson of a story

Supportive Practices

The adult will:

• Select appropriate literary text
• Assist students in selecting age and ability-appropriate fiction materials to read
• Model retelling with key details
• Model identifying the big idea or lesson of a story (i.e. Aesop’s fables)
• Provide multiple opportunities to practice retelling and identifying the central message/lesson/moral of a story
• Use reader response journals

 

This resource was created by the Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL). 

Contact: RA-PWPAELS@pa.gov 

Office of Child Development and Early Learning, OCDEL, Language, Literacy, Reading, Writing, Language Arts