Tina's Trip to the Doctor

Ages 6–8 · 12 minutes · English

Tina goes to the doctor to keep healthy, while you keep brushing up on your reading comprehension!

Students learn about identifying key details and ordering story events while traveling with Tina to the doctor's office for a check-up. Students 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.1.1 — 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.

Alabama

ELA21.1.22 — Ask and answer questions about key details in literary and informational texts.
ELA21.1.23a — Describe the characters and settings, using illustrations and textual evidence from a story.
ELA21.1.21 — Identify the main topic and key details of literary and informational texts.
ELA21.2.35 — Demonstrate listening skills and build background knowledge by asking and answering questions about texts read aloud.
ELA21.K.27a — With prompting and support, retell a text orally, including main character(s), setting, and important events in logical order.

Alaska

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about a literary text using key details from the text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, major events, and problem-solution in a story, play, or poem, using key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.2 — Retell stories, using key details, and demonstrate understanding their message (e.g., teach a lesson, make you laugh, tell a scary story, tell about an event) 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.

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.4.RF — Build general and academic vocabulary and background knowledge of age and grade-appropriate topics through discussion, reading, and writing.
1.RC.5.RF — Use background knowledge and details, including illustrations, charts, and graphs, to make predictions and inferences about what happens in a text.
1.RC.6.RF — Demonstrate comprehension of age and grade-appropriate texts by speaking or writing.

California

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.
RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

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.1-EO.a.ii — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.3-EO.d.i — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RWC20-GR.1-S.1-GLE.1-EO.b — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Connecticut

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
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.

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.
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.

Florida

ELA.1.R.3.2 — Retell a text in oral or written form to enhance comprehension. • Use main story elements at the beginning, middle, and end for a literary text. • Use topic and important details for an informational text.
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.2.R.3.2 — Retell a text to enhance comprehension. • Use main story elements in a logical sequence for a literary text. • Use the central idea and relevant details for an informational text.

Georgia

ELAGSE1RI2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

Hawaii

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.RF.4a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
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.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.
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).

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 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
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.2 — Retell stories, fables, and fairy tales in sequence, including key details, and demonstrate comprehension of their central message or lesson.
1.RC.3 — Using key details, identify and describe the elements of plot, character, and setting. (E)
1.RC.4 — Make and confirm predictions about what will happen next in a story.
1.RF.8 — Orally read decodable texts with appropriate fluency (rate, accuracy, and prosody) while reading.

Iowa

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 the main topic and key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

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.

Kentucky

RL.1.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer explicit questions about key ideas and details, and make and support logical inferences to construct meaning from the text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details in order to make meaning of the story development.
RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.7 — Use a story’s illustrations and details to describe its characters, setting and events.

Louisiana

RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.2.a — Retell stories, including key details.
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.

Maine

R.4.2.a — Ask and answer questions about who, what, when, where, how and why.
R.6.1.a — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, including details about who, what, when, where, and how.
R.6.2.b — Describe the relationship between a series of events, ideas or concepts, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
R.12.2.a — Read various on-level text with purpose and understanding.
R.5.2.a — Retell texts, including details about who, what, when, where, how, and why; demonstrate 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 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
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.

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.1.4.a — Read grade-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.
RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

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.
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.

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.
1.1.2.1 — 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.
2.1.4.1 — Ask and answer questions including who, what, where, when, why and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text; recount the
2.1.4.3 — Identify characters, setting, conflict, resolution and events in literary text.

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.
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.

Missouri

1.R.1.A.c — seeking clarification and locating facts and details about stories and other texts
1.R.1.A.d — retelling main ideas in sequence including key details
1.R.2.A.a — describe characters, setting, problem, solution, and events in logical sequences
1.R.1.A.a — predicting what will happen next using prior knowledge
1.RF.3.A.k — demonstrating decoding skills when reading

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.
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.1 — Retell familiar stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson from a literary text.
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.F.4 — Develop accuracy, phrasing, and expression/prosody while reading a variety of grade-level texts to support comprehension.
LA.1.RP.8 — With prompting and support, read and comprehend a wide range of literary texts of appropriate complexity for Grade 1.

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.
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.
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.
RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

New Jersey

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.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.

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.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
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.

New York

1R1 — Develop and answer questions about key ideas and details in a text. (RI&RL)
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.
1R7 — Use illustrations and details in literary and informational texts to discuss story elements and/or topics. (RI&RL)
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.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.

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.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.
2.R.3.b — Retell the plot to include the beginning, middle, and end of a literary text after reading.
1.F.12c — Accurately and automatically read a variety of first-grade texts with expression, phrasing, purpose, and understanding.
1.R.2 — Ask and answer questions about a variety of texts, genres, photographs, or illustrations before, during, and after shared reading or other text-listening experiences to compare, contrast, predict, or infer.

Ohio

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.b — Retell stories, including key details.
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

2.2.R.3 — Students will begin to summarize the plot of a story to include the beginning, middle, and end.
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.
2.3.R.5 — Students will use details from the literary or informational text to draw conclusions and make predictions.
2.4.R.5 — Students will acquire new grade-level vocabulary, relate new words to prior knowledge, and apply vocabulary in new situations.
2.2.R.1 — Students will identify the main idea and supporting details of a text.

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.RF.4a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
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.

Pennsylvania

CC.1.3.1.A — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
CC.1.3.1.B — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CC.1.3.1.C — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
CC.1.2.1.K — Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content.

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.1.10 — With prompting and support, read and comprehend literary texts representing a variety of genres, cultures, and perspectives and exhibiting complexity appropriate for at least grade 1.
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 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.RF.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
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, information presented orally, or through other media.

Tennessee

1.RI.KID.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
1.RI.KID.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
1.RI.CS.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 1 topic or subject area.
1.RI.RRTC.10 — With prompting and support, read informational texts of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
1.RI.KID.3 — Using graphic organizers or including written details and illustrations when developmentally appropriate, describe the connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

Texas

1.6G — evaluate details to determine what is most important with adult assistance;
1.8C — describe plot elements, including the main events, the problem, and the resolution, for texts read aloud and independently; and
1.3B — use illustrations and texts the student is able to read or hear to learn or clarify word meanings;
1.6C — make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures with adult assistance;
1.6F — make inferences and use evidence to support understanding with adult assistance;

Utah

1.R.5 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (RL & RI)
1.R.7 — Describe characters, settings, and important events in a story (RL) or pieces of information in a text. (RI)
1.R.4 — Read grade-level text* with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. (RL & RI)
1.R.6 — Read a variety of texts including those from diverse cultures to identify and retell the main idea and key details of a text. (RL & RI)

Vermont

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.

Virginia

2.RL.1.A — Retell stories sequentially, including their overall structure, essential story events, and the central message, lesson, or moral.
2.RV.1.A — Discuss meanings of new words or phrases acquired through conversations and literature.
2.RL.1.C — Describe character’s attributes (e.g., traits, motivations, or feelings) and how they respond to major events and challenges.
2.RL.1.D — Generate predictions about story characters and events using the text.
2.RV.1.B — Use vocabulary across content areas.

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.

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.
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.

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.I.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
ELA.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson in literary texts.

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.RF.4 — Read emergent-reader texts with purpose, understanding, and sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. • Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. • Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. • Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
ELA.1.SL.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
ELA.1.R.4 — Identify specific words and phrases that express feeling, appeal to the senses, or content-specific words within a text. (RI&RL)

Wyoming

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.