Tina Goes to the Beach

Ages 6–8 · 12 minutes · English

Break out the swimsuit and the sunnies! It's time go to the beach with Tina and work on reading comprehension skills.

Break out the swimsuit and the sunnies—it's time go to the beach with Tina!

Students learn about setting and read short passages to develop reading comprehension skills.

Prior knowledge required: ability to read sentences

Part of

Reading Comprehension 1

Standards alignment

Common Core State Standards

RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

Alabama

ELA21.1.22 — Ask and answer questions about key details in literary and informational texts.
ELA21.1.23 — Identify and describe the main story elements in a literary text.
ELA21.1.23a — Describe the characters and settings, using illustrations and textual evidence from a story.
ELA21.1.23b — Retell the plot or sequence of major events in chronological order.

Alaska

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, major events, and problem-solution in a story, play, or poem, using key details.
RL.1.7 — Use illustrations and details in a story read or read aloud to describe its characters, events, setting, or problem-solution.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Arizona

1.RL.1 — Ask and answer questions such as who, what, where, why, when, and how about key details in a text.
1.RL.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
1.RF.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.RL.7 — Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
1.SL.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Arkansas

1.RC.2.RF — Answer questions about key details in a text.
1.RC.8.RL — Describe the settings (when and where) and events in a text.
1.RC.10.RL — Explain how visual images support a text by clarifying story elements (settings, characters, and events).
1.RC.4.RF — Build general and academic vocabulary and background knowledge of age and grade-appropriate topics through discussion, reading, and writing.
1.RC.6.RF — Demonstrate comprehension of age and grade-appropriate texts by speaking or writing.
1.RC.7.RL — Describe the major characters and settings in a text.

California

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.1.10.b — Confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text.

Colorado

RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.1-EO.a.i — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.1-EO.a.iii — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.3-EO.d.i — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RWC20-GR.2-S.2-GLE.1-EO.c.i — Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Connecticut

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.K.7 — With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).

Delaware

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.7 — Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Florida

ELA.K.R.1.1 — Describe the main character(s), setting, and important events in a story.
ELA.1.F.1.3 — Use knowledge of grade-appropriate phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words accurately. • Decode words using knowledge of spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs, trigraphs, and blends. • Decode simple words with r-controlled vowels. • Decode and encode regularly spelled one-syllable words. • Decode words with inflectional endings. • Decode two-syllable words with regular patterns by breaking the words into syllables. • Decode words that use final –e and vowel teams to make long-vowel sound.
ELA.1.F.1.4 — Read grade-level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate prosody or expression. • Recognize and read with automaticity the grade-level sight words.
ELA.K.R.3.2 — Retell a text orally to enhance comprehension: • Use main character(s), setting, and important events for a story. • Use topic and details for an informational text.
ELA.K12.EE.3.1 — Make inferences to support comprehension.

Georgia

ELAGSE1RL1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
ELAGSE1RL3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
ELAGSE1RF4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
ELAGSE1RL2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
ELAGSE1RL7 — Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
ELAGSE1SL2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Hawaii

1.RF.4a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.RL.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
1.RL.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
1.RL.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
1.SL.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Idaho

1.RC.L.5b — Describe the connection between characters, settings, and major events in stories heard, using key details.
1.RC.TE.3 — Ask and answer questions about key details in texts heard or read.
1.RC.L.5 — Use evidence from literature to demonstrate understanding of grade-level texts.
1.RC.RF.4 — Read grade-level text with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression to support comprehension in successive readings (see the 2017 Hasbrouck and Tindal norms listed in the Resource Reference).
1.RC.L.5a — Retell the beginning, middle, and end of familiar stories (including fables and fairy tales) with key details heard or read, demonstrating understanding of their central messages or morals.

Illinois

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Indiana

1.RC.1 — Ask and answer questions about the main idea and key details to clarify and confirm understanding of a text. (E)
1.RC.3 — Using key details, identify and describe the elements of plot, character, and setting. (E)
1.CC.4 — Ask and answer questions about key details in what is read, heard, or viewed to demonstrate comprehension. (E)
1.RC.6 — Retell main ideas and key details of a text. (E)
K.RF.9 — Orally read decodable texts with appropriate accuracy and automaticity.

Iowa

RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Kansas

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.7 — Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Kentucky

RL.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why and how, and make and support logical inferences to construct meaning from the text.
RL.2.7 — Use a story’s illustrations and words in print/non-print texts to demonstrate understanding of characters, setting and plot.
RL.2.10 — By the end of the year, flexibly use a variety of comprehension strategies (i.e., questioning, monitoring, visualizing, inferencing, summarizing, using prior knowledge, determining importance) to read, comprehend and analyze grade-level appropriate, complex literary texts independently and proficiently.

Louisiana

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.2.a — Retell stories, including key details.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Maine

R.4.1.a — Ask and answer questions about who, what, when, where, and how.
R.6.1.a — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, including details about who, what, when, where, and how.
R.11.1.a — Use illustrations and words in a text to describe its characters, setting, or events.
R.12.1.a — Read various on-level text with purpose and understanding.
SL.2.1.a — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
R.5.1.a — Retell texts, including details about who, what, when, where, and how; demonstrate an understanding of the theme.

Maryland

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Massachusetts

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.K.4 — Read early-emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Michigan

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.2.7 — Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Minnesota

1.1.4.1 — Ask and answer questions including who, what and where to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text; retell key details.
1.1.4.3 — Identify characters and setting, in a literary text, with prompting as needed.
1.1.6.2 — Identify the time period and setting of the text.
1.1.2.1 — Read independently and monitor understanding of grade-level text; self-correct as needed using strategies including, but not limited to, decoding, looking at context and making connections.

Mississippi

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.K.7 — With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).

Missouri

1.R.1.A.c — seeking clarification and locating facts and details about stories and other texts
1.R.1.A.b — asking and responding to relevant questions
1.R.1.D.a — engaging with and reading text that is developmentally appropriate
K.R.2.A.a — identify elements of a story, including setting, character, and key events
1.R.1.A.d — retelling main ideas in sequence including key details

Montana

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.7 — Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Nebraska

LA.1.RP.2 — Identify the main character(s), setting, and important events, drawing on key details in a literary text.
LA.1.RP.6 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a literary text.
LA.1.RP.8 — With prompting and support, read and comprehend a wide range of literary texts of appropriate complexity for Grade 1.
LA.1.RP.1 — Retell familiar stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson from a literary text.

Nevada

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
RL.1.7 — Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

New Hampshire

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.2.7 — Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

New Jersey

RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major event(s) in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

New Mexico

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RL.1.NM.1 — Identify the main topic, retell key details of a text, and make predictions;
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.1.NM.4 — Relate prior knowledge to textual information.

New York

1R3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, or pieces of information in a text. (RI&RL)
1RF4 — Read beginning reader texts, appropriate to individual student ability, with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
1RF4a — Read beginning reader texts, appropriate to individual student ability, orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
1SL2 — Develop and answer questions about key details in diverse texts and formats.

North Carolina

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.5.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.2.7 — Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

North Dakota

1.R.3.b — Identify characters, setting, and plot in a literary text during or after a shared reading or other text-listening experience.
2.R.1 — Comprehend information during and after listening to a grade-level text.
2.R.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details before, during, and after reading a variety of literary and informational texts to compare, contrast, predict or infer.

Ohio

RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RL.2.7 — Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented in various media and other formats (e.g., orally).

Oklahoma

2.3.R.3 — Students will find examples of literary elements: • setting (i.e., time and place) • plot (i.e., beginning, middle, end) • characters and their traits
2.2.F.2 — Students will orally and accurately read grade-level text at a smooth rate with expression that connotes comprehension.
2.2.R.3 — Students will begin to summarize the plot of a story to include the beginning, middle, and end.
2.4.R.5 — Students will acquire new grade-level vocabulary, relate new words to prior knowledge, and apply vocabulary in new situations.

Oregon

1.RL.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
1.RL.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
1.SL.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
2.RL.7 — Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Pennsylvania

CC.1.3.1.C — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
CC.1.2.1.B — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CC.1.3.K.B — Answer questions about key details in a text.

Rhode Island

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

South Carolina

ELA.1.AOR.1.1 — Identify and describe the main story elements, such as character(s), setting, and events that move the plot forward.
ELA.1.AOR.1.1.INIS — Indicator Insights: Main story elements include and go beyond characters, settings, and events that move the plot forward.
ELA.1.OE.3 — Make inferences to support comprehension.
ELA.2.AOR.10.1 — Identify and explain how information gained from visuals (e.g., illustrations, photographs, maps) contributes to an understanding of a print or non-print text.

South Dakota

1.RL.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
1.RL.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
1.RL.10.a — Read and comprehend proficiently at grade level with increasing challenge in text difficulty and complexity (e.g., layout, text structure, language/literacy features, and knowledge demands).
1.SL.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud, information presented orally, or through other media.

Tennessee

1.FL.PWR.3.h — Read grade-level decodable text with purpose and understanding.
K.RL.KID.3 — With prompting and support, orally identify characters, setting, and major events in a story.

Texas

1.8D — describe the setting.
1.6I — monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, checking for visual cues, and asking questions when understanding breaks down.
1.7A — describe personal connections to a variety of sources;
1.7C — use text evidence to support an appropriate response;
1.7D — retell texts in ways that maintain meaning;

Utah

1.R.7 — Describe characters, settings, and important events in a story (RL) or pieces of information in a text. (RI)
2.R.5 — Ask and answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. (RL & RI)
2.R.12 — Demonstrate understanding of story elements and/or topics by applying information gained from illustrations or text features. (RL & RI)

Vermont

RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

Virginia

1.RL.1.B — Identify the elements of a familiar story, including the characters, setting, and important events (e.g., conflict and resolution).
1.DSR.A — Use knowledge of letter-sound correspondences to read a variety of decodable and gradelevel texts with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate rate, and meaningful expression in successive readings to support comprehension. Monitor while reading to confirm or selfcorrect word recognition and understanding, as necessary (Reading Fluency, K-12).
1.DSR.C — With prompting and support, when responding to text through discussions and/or writing, draw several pieces of evidence from read-alouds to support claims, conclusions, and inferences, including quoting or paraphrasing from texts accurately and tracing where relevant evidence is located (Textual Evidence, K-12).
1.RL.3.B — Make connections between characters, settings, and major events in stories heard, using key details.

Washington

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Washington, D.C.

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.7 — Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

West Virginia

ELA.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a literary text.
ELA.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details in literary texts.
ELA.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson in literary texts.
ELA.1.31 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
ELA.1.I.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.

Wisconsin

ELA.1.R.1 — Develop and answer questions about key ideas and details in a text. (RI&RL)
ELA.1.R.3 — Describe characters, settings, and important events in a story or pieces of information in a text. (RI&RL)
ELA.1.R.2 — Identify a main topic or central idea in a text with guidance and support; retell important details. (RI&RL)
ELA.1.SL.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Wyoming

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.