Reading: Literature in 1st GradeRL.1 Standards

Short answer. Between kindergarten and 1st grade, the training wheels start coming off story comprehension. Where the kindergarten standards said 'with prompting and support,' RL.1 mostly expects your child to ask and answer questions, retell a story with its lesson attached, and describe characters and events on her own. New this year: noticing words that show feelings or appeal to the senses, telling story books from information books, and figuring out who is telling the story.

The four clusters are the same skeleton used across all reading grades. Key Ideas and Details covers questions, retelling with the central message, and describing characters, settings, and events. Craft and Structure handles sensory language, fiction versus nonfiction, and narrator. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas uses illustrations as evidence and compares characters' adventures across stories. Range of Reading expects your child to handle grade 1 prose and poetry, with support where needed.