Summarize: When readers summarize, they identify and report on the key ideas, details, or events in the text, giving just the important information, not every single detail.
Themes: These are what the text is actually about, and there can be more than one. A theme can be the central message, the lesson, or what the author wants you to come away with. Common themes include survival, good versus evil, showing respect for others, adventure, love, and friendship.
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The standards guide instruction; they do not dictate it. So as you plan lessons remember you aren’t teaching the standards, but instead are teaching students how to read, write, talk, and think through well-crafted lessons that draw from the pedagogy embedded within them. Engaging lessons often have several ELA standards within them and integrate reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language.
Grades K–2 Common Core Reading Standard 3: Key Ideas and Details
Standard 3: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
Literature
K With prompting and support, students identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
1 Students describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
2 Students describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Informational Text
K With prompting and support, students describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
1 Students describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
2 Students describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
Grades K–2 Common Core Reading Standard 3: What the Student Does
Literature
K Gist: Students identify the characters, setting, and major events in a story.
They consider:
Who is the main character and what is he or she like?
Who are the other characters and how does the main character get along with them?
How does the main character react to major events that occur?
Would the story have been the same if it had taken place at a different location?
1 Gist: Students describe the characters, setting, and major events in a story, using key details.
They consider:
How does the main character behave at the beginning of the story? Why? What problem is causing him or her to act that way?
How do other characters make things better or worse for the main character?
What, if anything, has the main character learned by the end of the story? Or has what was once a problem been resolved? What events caused this to happen?
Would the story be the same if it had taken place at a different location or at a different time?
2 Gist: Students describe how characters respond to major events and challenges.
They consider:
How does the main character behave at the beginning, middle, and end of the story?
Why does the main character’s behavior change from the beginning of the story to the end?
What event is the turning point of the story, when the main character does something or understands something that helps solve the problem?
Informational Text
K Gist: Students describe how two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information relate to one another.
They consider:
How does the title help me understand what the text is about?
Which pieces of information explain the title?
How is the text organized? Do the sections or chapters follow in a helpful order?
How do the illustrations and the words work together to help me understand the main topic?
1 Gist: Students describe how two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information relate to one another.
They consider:
What does the title tell me about the topic? How about the headings?
How is the text organized? Do the sections or chapters follow in a logical order?
How does the information in each section relate to the section title and the main topic as a whole?
How do the illustrations, the text features, and the words work together to help me understand the main topic?
2 Gist: Students describe the connection between historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures.
They consider:
Is the author’s purpose to describe people,
