Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Domain guide
Reading: Informational Text in Kindergarten (RI.K)RI.K Standards
Short answer. Somewhere around age 5, a lot of kids trade storybooks for books about sharks, volcanoes, and garbage trucks. RI.K meets them there. It covers what kindergarteners do with nonfiction: name the main topic, retell key details, point out the front cover and title page, and connect what a photo shows to what the words say. As with the literature standards, adult prompting and support is baked in.
Four clusters organize the domain, and they mirror the RL.K set. Key Ideas and Details handles topics, details, and connections between ideas. Craft and Structure covers unknown words, book parts, and the jobs of author and illustrator. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas gets into pictures, the reasons an author gives, and comparing two books on the same topic. Range of Reading rounds it out with active group reading.