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Common Core Informational Text

“Songbooks of Science” and the Common Core Reading Standards for Informational Text

Kindergarten Students: Grade 1 Students: Grade 2 Students:
Key Ideas and Details
  1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
    *(All titles)
  2. With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
    *(All titles)
  3. With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
    *(All titles)
  1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
    *(All titles)
  2. Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
    *(All titles)
  3. Describe the connection between two individuals (Gravity), events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
    *(All titles)
  1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
    *(All titles- many focus on cause/effect)
  1. Describe the connection between a series of scientific ideas or concepts in a text.
    *(All titles)
Craft and Structure
  1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
    *(All titles)
  2. Identify the front cover, back cover, and title of a book.
    *(All titles)
  3. Name the author or ”lyricist,” illustrator, and “composer”(created the music) of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
    *(All titles)
  1. Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
    *(All titles)
  1. Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.
    *(All titles)
  1. Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
    *(All titles)
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
  1. With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
    *(All titles)
  1. Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
    *(All titles)
  2. Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
    *(All titles)
  1. Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
    *(All titles)
* All titles include: B-B-B-Bats, Bear Facts, Busy Bees, Dig a Dinosaur, Frog on a Log, Gravity, What Hatches from an Egg?, Munch,Munch,Munch, Save a Tree for Me, The Predator, Winter’s Gift