Standard 2: Reading and Writing Process

Students will use a variety of recursive reading and writing processes.

Student Actions 

Teacher Actions 

• Students begin to restate or dramatize a familiar story, putting key details in sequential order.
• Students begin to identify the main topic of a text.

Students at this level require guidance and support during instructional opportunities for this objective.

• Teachers read or tell familiar stories to the class.
• Teachers lead students in putting stories in chronological order using transitional words (beginning, middle, end).
• Teachers model how to act out a portions of stories (with or without props).
• Teachers provide opportunities for students to restate or reenact stories.
• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback about the order of events in familiar stories.
• Teachers explain and discuss how to find the main idea in text.
• Teachers read text and identify the main idea.
• Teachers read text and question students about the main idea. Example:  What is this story mostly about?
• Teachers provide opportunities for students to  identify the main idea of a read aloud.
• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback to help students identify the main topic of a text.

Resources

Teacher Insights 

• Retell is to recall the content of what was read or heard.

• Reenact is to act out the events of a text.

• The main idea is the central thought or premise of a reading passage.

• Read alouds are texts, passages, or poems the teacher reads to students.

• Puppets, masks, retell cards, or other props should be provided to aid students in acting out or retelling stories.

• Students need opportunities to act out stories with props while listening to text read aloud.  

• Children may need guidance and support when they retell events out of sequence or add/delete major events.

Due to recursive nature of the standards, ensure to be cognizant of how all of the objectives within and between strands work together for optimal instruction.