With prompting and support, retell a familiar story in sequence with picture support.

Answer questions about a particular story (who, what, how, when, and where).

With prompting and support, answer questions to identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story.

With prompting and support, recognize common types of text.

Answer questions about unfamiliar words read aloud from a story.

Describe pictures in books using details.

Answer questions to compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

With prompting and support, clarify unknown words or phrases read aloud.

Use new vocabulary and phrases acquired in conversations and being read to.

With prompting and support, retell familiar stories including key details.

Answer questions about key details in a text.

With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

Name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.

Recognize common types of text.

Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

Make connections between the illustrations and the text in a story (read or read aloud).

Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown or multiple meaning words and phrases based upon grade-level reading and content.

Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and being read to, and responding to texts.

Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading or range of text types.

Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Use illustrations and details in a story to describe characters, setting, or events.

Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade-level reading and content

Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and being read to, and responding to texts, including words that signal connections and relationships between the words and phrases.

Recount stories and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

Ask and answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Acknowledge differences in the points of views of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Use information from illustrations and words, in print or digital text, to demonstrate understanding of characters, setting, or plot.

Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different culture.

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing from a range of strategies and tools.

Acquire and use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases.

Refer to parts of texts when writing or speaking about a text using such terms as chapter, scene and stanza and describe how each successive part builds upon earlier sections.

Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).

Explain major differences between poems, drama and prose and refer to the structural elements of each when writing or speaking about a text.

Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.

Explain how a series of chapters, scenes or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.

Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).