Time for Bed, Tommy!

Ages 6–8 · 9 minutes · English

It's almost bedtime! Check out Tommy's nighttime routine while developing reading comprehension skills.

Students practice making predictions and ordering story events while learning about Tommy's bedtime routine. 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.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
CCRA.R.1 — Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

Alabama

ELA21.1.23b — Retell the plot or sequence of major events in chronological order.
ELA21.1.27 — Make predictions using information found within a literary text.
ELA21.1.22 — Ask and answer questions about key details in literary and informational texts.
ELA21.2.23b — Describe the characters' traits, feelings, and behaviors in a story.
ELA21.2.30a — State and confirm predictions about a text.

Alaska

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.
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 (e.g., problem-solution; chronology).

Arizona

1.RF.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.RL.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their main idea, central message, or lesson.
1.RF.3 — Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding one-syllable or two-syllable words.
1.RL.10 — With prompting and support, read stories, drama, and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Arkansas

1.RC.2.RF — Answer questions about key details in a text.
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.3.RF — Retell (orally or in writing) a text read aloud, including main idea and key details to demonstrate understanding of the central message or topic.
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.

California

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.10.b — Confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text.
RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Colorado

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.2-GLE.1-EO.a.iii — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RWC20-GR.2-S.2-GLE.1-EO.a.i — Demonstrate use of self-monitoring comprehension strategies: rereading, checking context clues, predicting, questioning, clarifying, activating schema/background knowledge to construct meaning and draw inferences.

Connecticut

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.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Delaware

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.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

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.K12.EE.3.1 — Make inferences to support comprehension.
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.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.

Hawaii

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.RF.3e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
1.RL.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
K-12.R.R.1 — Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

Idaho

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.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).

Illinois

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.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Indiana

1.RC.4 — Make and confirm predictions about what will happen next in a story.
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.RF.8 — Orally read decodable texts with appropriate fluency (rate, accuracy, and prosody) while reading.
1.RC.3 — Using key details, identify and describe the elements of plot, character, and setting. (E)

Iowa

RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read stories and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
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.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables (may include closed and open syllables).
RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

Kansas

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.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate words.
RL.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
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.

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.1.10 — With prompting and support, flexibly use a variety of comprehension strategies (i.e., questioning, monitoring, visualizing, inferencing, summarizing, using prior knowledge, determining importance) to make sense of grade-level appropriate, complex literary texts.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details in order to make meaning of the story development.
RL.1.7 — Use a story’s illustrations and details to describe its characters, setting and events.

Louisiana

RL.1.2.a — Retell stories, including key details.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.

Maine

R.12.1.a — Read various on-level text with purpose and understanding.
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.7.1.b — Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
R.4.2.a — Ask and answer questions about who, what, when, where, how and why.

Maryland

CCRA.R.1 — Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
CCRA.R.3 — Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
RL.2.10 — By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2—3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Massachusetts

RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
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.
RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

Michigan

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.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Minnesota

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.
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.
1.1.2.2 — At grade 1 text complexity, select and proficiently read and comprehend texts that address academic tasks.
2.1.1.2.b — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words: decode multi-syllabic words that include prefixes,suffixes and vowel digraphs.

Mississippi

RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
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.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.3.f — Read words with inflectional endings.

Missouri

1.R.1.A.a — predicting what will happen next using prior knowledge
1.R.1.A.d — retelling main ideas in sequence including key details
1.R.1.A.c — seeking clarification and locating facts and details about stories and other texts
1.R.1.D.a — engaging with and reading text that is developmentally appropriate
1.R.2.A.a — describe characters, setting, problem, solution, and events in logical sequences

Montana

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
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.6 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a literary text.
LA.1.F.4.a — Read decodable text accurately with appropriate rate, intonation, and expression/prosody to reflect meaning.
LA.1.RP.2 — Identify the main character(s), setting, and important events, drawing on 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.

Nevada

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.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

New Hampshire

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.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
RF.1.3 — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

New Jersey

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.
RF.1.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read and comprehend stories and poetry at grade level text complexity or above.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables using knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound.

New Mexico

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
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;
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
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.
2R1 — Develop and answer questions to demonstrate an understanding of key ideas and details in a text. (RI&RL)
2RF3c — Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words.
K.8a — Specific words and phrases related to chronology and time should be used when recounting events and experiences.

North Carolina

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.
RF.1.5.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.4.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.

North Dakota

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.
1.R.8a — Identify characters' feelings or traits in a story, poem,or nursery rhyme during or after a shared reading or other text-listening experience.
1.F.12a — Read accurately and automatically at the word level
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.3.b — Retell the plot to include the beginning, middle, and end of a literary text after reading.

Ohio

RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1. Activate prior knowledge and draw on previous experiences in order to make text-to-self or text-to-text connections and comparisons.
RL.1.2.b — Retell stories, including key details.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.

Oregon

1.RL.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
1.RL.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
1.RF.3e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
1.RL.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
1.RL.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
1.RL.7 — Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Pennsylvania

CC.1.3.1.A — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
CC.1.3.1.C — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
CC.1.3.K.G — Make connections between the illustrations and the text in a story (read or read aloud).

Rhode Island

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.
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.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.

South Carolina

ELA.2.AOR.1.1 — Describe the main story elements and sequence the important events.
ELA.1.F.4 — Read and reread grade-appropriate texts with accuracy and expression at an appropriate rate to support comprehension. (FK -1.3-2.18 LF BR-430)
ELA.1.OE.3 — Make inferences to support comprehension.
ELA.2.OE.3 — Make inferences to support comprehension.
ELA.2.F.4.3 — Read texts by: a. using letter-sound knowledge to segment and blend sounds together; b. decoding the words by analogy; c. recognizing chunks; d. generalizing phonic skills to unknown words; and e. using context and visuals from the text to support monitoring and self-correcting.

South Dakota

1.RF.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.RL.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
1.RF.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
1.RL.10 — By the end of the year, read and comprehend a variety of literary text.
1.RL.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Tennessee

1.RL.KID.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
1.RL.RRTC.10 — With prompting and support, read stories and poems of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
1.FL.F.5.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
2.RL.KID.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
1.FL.PWR.3.h — Read grade-level decodable text with purpose and understanding.

Texas

1.6C — make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures with adult assistance;
1.6E — make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society with adult assistance;
1.6F — make inferences and use evidence to support understanding with adult assistance;
2.6C — make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;

Utah

1.R.3 — Demonstrate mastery of age-appropriate phonics skills.
K.R.7 — Identify the characters, settings, and important events in a story (RL) or pieces of information in a text. (RI)
K.1.2.b — Explain family rules and routines.

Vermont

RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
CCRA.R.1 — Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

Virginia

1.RL.1.A — Retell familiar stories sequentially and demonstrate an understanding of the story structure, the central message or lesson, and the details.
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.RL.3.A — Set a purpose for reading by providing a guiding question, activating prior (experience) and background (content) knowledge.
1.RV.1.A — Discuss meanings of words in context from a variety of texts.

Washington

RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
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.1.3 — 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.

Washington, D.C.

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.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
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.

West Virginia

ELA.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a literary text.
ELA.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson in literary texts.
ELA.1.18 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1 in literary texts.
ELA.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details in literary texts.
ELA.1.13 — Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events 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.RF.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic (known) patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
ELA.2.RF.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

Wyoming

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.
RF.1.3.e — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
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.