I-CANyons Parent Toolkit for First Grade Language Arts
Reading Literature and Information Texts: I CAN:
Standard
Ask and answer questions about key details.
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Core Standard
RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RI.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text SL.2 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text, read aloud, or information presented orally or through other media. |
In Other Words
Students will be able to answer questions about the book they have read. Questions often begin with who, what, where, when, which and why.
Students should understand details and individual parts of a story. Ask your child questions about the story. For example: What house was the best? Why? Ask sequencing type questions (before, next, after) like: What happened after the straw house blew down? After hearing a story read to them, students can ask and answer basic questions (in complete sentences) that are related to the story. Encourage students to answer with more than a yes or no. For example, "Yes, because...", so they are providing a brief explanation and practicing using complete sentences. |
If Mastered
Have your child make a story journal to write about the books they read. Get a notebook or staple sheets of paper together. After finishing a book, your child can write about what they read and their favorite part. Keep adding to the journal and keep track of all the books your child is reading. Your child can also list and describe the characters, setting, problem and solution. http://www.education.com/activity/article/Create_Story_Summary_Folder/
Students can work on answering who, what, where, when, why, and how questions about the story. Go to the following website and complete the many activities to support retelling key details in an informational text: http://www.brainpopjr.com/readingandwriting/comprehension/mainidea/grownups.weml#teachers%20 Students can work on recounting and describing the details in a movie, text or story. |
If Not Yet Mastered
Activity 1: Question Dice - Make a dice and write different questions on each side. (What has happened so far in the story? What do you think will happen next? What are the characters doing? Where does the story take place?) You can also add specific questions that go with certain books. While reading with your child, role the dice throughout the story and answer questions related to the story. http://www.education.com/activity/article/question-dice/
Activity 2: Questions Anyone - Make a spinner that has the words "who, what where, when" on it. While reading with your child, stop throughout the book and spin the spinner. Have your child answer a question starting with the word the spinner lands on. http://www.education.com/activity/article/questions_anyone_first/ Activity 3: Question Questions - Before reading a book with your child, read it and write questions that you can ask your child. Write your open ended question(s) on post it notes and when your child gets to that page, stop and discuss the question(s) together. http://www.education.com/activity/article/questions_questions_first/ Practice finding the main idea and key details in a story by using this graphic organizer. It can be printed out and used as many times as needed. http://www.fcrr.org/studentactivities/c_012b.pdf Practice drawing a picture about the main idea and key details in a story and then talk about the picture and the details in the story. Encourage students to add more details to their drawing. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson-docs/SampleLitResponse.pdf |
Standard
Identify the main topic and retell key details.
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Core Standard
RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
RI.1.2 Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. SL.1.2 Ask and and answer questions about key details in a text. Read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. |
In Other Words
Students will be able to explain the main idea and details of a story after they have read it. This includes retelling the beginning, middle, end, problem and solution of the story. *The problem is the overarching conflict the characters face in a story. The solution is an answer to a problem or how the conflict is solved. Throughout a story, characters might find different solutions to a problem, successfully or unsuccessfully.
Students should understand what the story is about. Example: In the story The Three Little Pigs, students understand that the pigs had to have a strong house. The details would include the three types of houses. |
If Mastered
Make a "retell wheel" with more advanced questions. Print the questions (C.008.AM2) from the following link and use them with a book your child is reading. To extend the activity, have your child write the answers. C.014 Retell Wheel http://www.fcrr.org/studentactivities/c_008b.pdf
Students can work on identifying the focus within paragraphs in a multi-paragraph text. Go to the following website and complete the many activities to support retelling the main topic in an informational text: http://www.brainpopjr.com/readingandwriting/comprehension/mainidea/grownups.weml#teachers%20 |
If Not Yet Mastered
Make a wheel of retelling questions. Print the questions (C.008.AM1) from the following link and use them with a book your child is reading. If your child struggles to answer a question, go back and review the story together. C.014 Retell Wheel - http://www.fcrr.org/studentactivities/c_008b.pdf
Practice finding the main idea and key details in a story by using this text wheel. It can be printed out and use as many times as needed. http://www.fcrr.org/studentactivities/c_016a.pdf |
Standard
Recognize structure (e.g. sequence, character, illustrations).
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Core Standard
RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RL.1.5 Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types. RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting or events. RI.1.3 Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. RI.1.5 Know various text features (e.g. headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information provided by the words in a text. RI.1.6 Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text. RI.1.7 Use the illustration and details in a text to describe its key ideas. |
In Other Words
Students will be able to recall and describe the characters, setting, and events that happen in a book. A character is normally one of the people in the story and could be an animal. Setting is the time and place in which a story takes place. The events are the happenings in the book. Students identify and use titles and headings to locate information. Students use illustrations to describe information from a text
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If Mastered
Make a retelling cube using the pattern on the following website: http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/PDF/GK-1/C_Final.pdf (C.011) Have your child play the game with a friend or family member to practice describing and then writing the characters, settings and events.
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If Not Yet Mastered
After reading, have your child make a mini book listing the characters, setting, events and major events. Print the mini book from the following website: http://www.cherylsigmon.com/pdf/Little-book-for-narrative.pdf Play the following retelling activities with your child (C.007SSI,C.008) on the following website: http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/PDF/GK-1/C_Final.pdf
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Standard
Compare and contrast texts.
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Core Standard
RL.1.6 Identify who is telling a story at various parts of a text.
RL.1.9 Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories. RI.1.9 Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures. |
In Other Words
Students can tell how something is the same (compare) and tell how something is different (contrast) in a story and between various stories. For example, in the book Stellaluna by Janell Cannon, a baby bat gets separated from her mother. She is found and raised by a mother bird. The mother bird has three baby birds that teach Stellaluna what it is like to be a bird. Eventually Stellaluna finds her mother and tries teaching the birds how to be a bat. This book shares how birds and bats are the same and how they are different. Students can compare and contrast two books with the same topic or main idea. For example, if they read the original The Three Little Pigs book and then another book about pigs like The Three Little Javalinas they are able to tell: the similarities (like they are both aboiut pigs and they both build houses) and the differences (the type of houses are different, the setting is different, the wolf is a coyote, etc.).
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If Mastered
Students read three different stories and list the characters, setting, and problem/solution. After completing the form on the following website, have your child look for similarities and differences between the three books. http://www.cherylsigmon.com/pdf/Compare_and_Contrast_Chart.pdf. In addition, have your child think of connections outside of the stories that relate to their own lives or the world around them. (How are you like the characters? What does that remind you of in your own life?) Students can work on comparing and contrasting the most important points presented in a text. Later, have your child do the following text analysis activity contrasting fiction and non fictional texts (C.019) http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/PDF/GK-1/C_Final.pdf.
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If Not Yet Mastered
While reading with your child, ask questions to help see the similarities and differences within the story. Examples: How are the characters alike/different? How are the settings alike/different? How are the problems alike/different? How are the solutions alike/different? How are the events alike/different? A few good books to read to practice comparing and contrasting: City Mouse and Country Mouse (Aesop Fable), The Recess Queen (Alexis O'Neill), Beatrice Doesn't Want To (Laura Numeroff). Play Compare the Characters (C.008) with your child on the following website: http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/PDF/GK-1/C_Final.pdf.
Have students compare and contrast a story. They can organize their ideas with your help using this Venn diagram. Ask them what was different about each story (those go on the outside of each circle. Then ask them to tell you the things that are similar in each story (these ideas go in the center, overlapping part of the circles). http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/venn-diagram-30973.html. |
