Reading: Literature in KindergartenRL.K Standards

Short answer. If you read bedtime stories, you're already teaching this domain. RL.K is about what kindergarteners do with stories: ask and answer questions about them, retell the familiar ones, name the characters and where things happen, and notice what the pictures add. Almost every standard here starts with 'with prompting and support,' which means your questions are part of the plan, not a crutch.

The standards fall into four clusters. Key Ideas and Details covers questions, retelling, and characters. Craft and Structure covers new words, knowing a poem from a storybook, and what authors and illustrators each do. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas connects pictures to text and compares characters across stories. Range of Reading is one standard: joining group reading with purpose. None of it requires your child to read the words himself yet.