📚 English · Reading Comprehension
Characters, settings, and events
Identify characters, settings, and major events in stories; become familiar with key stories, fairy tales, and traditional tales and retell them with key details in sequence
Typical age: 5–8 years
“After reading a fairy tale or story together, can your child retell it to you in order — saying who was in it, where it happened, and what the main events were?”
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- Predicting what happens next
Story elements support prediction
- Reading between the linesREQUIRED
Need story elements to extract key details
- Comparing Characters Across StoriesREQUIRED
Need story elements to compare texts
- Simple Stories with Beginning and Ending
Story elements from reading inform writing
- Story Sequence and Central MessageREQUIRED
Sequence and central message build on Y1 story elements
- Themes and messagesREQUIRED
Identifying themes requires understanding story elements
- Retelling Stories with StructureREQUIRED
Character/narrator analysis builds on Y1 story elements