Unit Plan 2 (Grade PreK ELA): Asking & Answering Questions About Stories

Focus: Who/what/where/when; retelling with picture clues

Grade Level: PreK

Subject Area: English Language Arts (Read-Aloud Comprehension • Speaking/Listening • Early Narrative)

Total Unit Duration: 5 sessions (one week), 30–45 minutes per session (use two short blocks if needed)

I. Introduction

This week children learn to ask and answer story questions (who/what/where/when) and to retell a familiar story using picture clues. Through highly visual read-alouds, partner talk, and hands-on sequencing cards, learners practice noticing key details and sharing them in short, supported sentences.

II. Objectives and Standards

Learning Objectives — Students will be able to…

1. Ask and answer simple who/what/where/when questions about a read-aloud with adult support (RL.PK.1).
2. Retell a familiar story with beginning–middle–end ideas using picture cards or the book’s illustrations (RL.PK.2).
3. Use illustrations to describe characters, setting, and major events (RL.PK.7).
4. Confirm understanding of the story by responding to simple check-for-understanding prompts or asking a clarifying question (SL.PK.2).

Standards Alignment — PreK

• RL.PK.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about details in a text.
• RL.PK.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories.
• RL.PK.7 With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story.
• SL.PK.2 Confirm understanding of a text read aloud by asking/answering questions about key details and requesting clarification.

Success Criteria — student language

• “I can tell who is in the story and what happened.” (RL.PK.1)
• “I can say where and when the story happens using the pictures.” (RL.PK.1/RL.PK.7)
• “I can retell the story: first, next, last.” (RL.PK.2)
• “I can ask or answer a question to make sure I understand.” (SL.PK.2)