Content Area and Standards

Reading

Kindergarten NYS Next Gen Standards.
KR2: Retell stories or share key details from a text.) KR3: Identify characters, settings, major events in a story, or pieces of information in a text. KR8: Identify specific information to support ideas in a text.  KR9: Make connections between self, text, and the world. KW4: Create a response to a text, author, or personal experience (e.g., dramatization, artwork, or poem) KSL2: Participate in a conversation about features of diverse texts and formats. 

Grade 1
1R2: Identify a main topic or central idea in a text and retell important details.  1R3: Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, or pieces of information in a text. .1R9: Make connections between self and text (texts and other people/ world)1W4: Create a response to a text, author, theme or personal experience (e.g., poem, dramatization, artwork, or other). Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse peers and adults (e.g., in small and large groups and during play). 1SL5: Create or utilize existing visual displays to support descriptions to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

Grade 2
2R1: Develop and answer questions to demonstrate an understanding of key ideas and details in a text. (RI&RL) 2R2: Identify a main topic or central idea and retell key details in a text; summarize portions of a text. (RI&RL) 2R3: In literary texts, describe how characters respond to major events and challenges  2W4: Create a response to a text, author, theme or personal experience (e.g., poem, play, story, artwork, or other).2SL1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse peers and adults in small and large groups and during play.2SL5: Include digital media and/or visual displays in presentations to clarify or support ideas, thoughts, and feelings.