Alabama Kindergarten Reading Standards for Informational Texts
LiteracyTA provides reading skills that Alabama educators use to teach Alabama Kindergarten Reading Standards for Informational Texts.
The Alabama literacy standards are the what. The skills below and the related eCoach discussions are the how. In the table below, you will find next to each Alabama reading standard practical skills, classroom resources, rich conversations and teaching ideas that move all students toward achieving Alabama standards!
Key Ideas and Details
5 Steps to Confident Reading
Build reading skills and confidence with a step-by-step process for reading fiction and non-fiction texts.
Asking Questions: 5Ws and 1H
Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions while reading.
Making Inferences
Draw conclusions about ideas in a text that are not directly stated.
Marking a Text
Identify and isolate essential ideas in a text.
Retelling Main Ideas
Retell the main ideas with pictures and words.
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Stopping and Predicting
Stop reading to make predictions about what will be said or done.
5 Steps to Confident Reading
Build reading skills and confidence with a step-by-step process for reading fiction and non-fiction texts.
Asking Questions: 5Ws and 1H
Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions while reading.
Marking a Text
Identify and isolate essential ideas in a text.
Predicting the Main Idea
Scan the text and make predictions about subject, content, and structure.
Retelling Main Ideas
Retell the main ideas with pictures and words.
Craft and Structure
5 Steps to Confident Reading
Build reading skills and confidence with a step-by-step process for reading fiction and non-fiction texts.
Asking Questions: 5Ws and 1H
Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions while reading.
Important Vocabulary
Define words that are important to the main ideas in a text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RI7
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
5 Steps to Confident Reading
Build reading skills and confidence with a step-by-step process for reading fiction and non-fiction texts.
Learning from Visuals and Words
Retell information that is communicated through pictures and words.
Retelling Main Ideas
Retell the main ideas with pictures and words.
RI9
With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
5 Steps to Confident Reading
Build reading skills and confidence with a step-by-step process for reading fiction and non-fiction texts.
Compare and Contrast Organizer
Keep track of ideas that are being compared and contrasted in a text.
Compare and Contrast Organizer
Keep track of ideas that are being compared and contrasted in a text.
