Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees

Ages 4–8 · 14 minutes · English, Stories

Help Winnie-the-Pooh get some delicious honey to eat

Winnie-the-Pooh is hungry for some honey, but the only honey he can find is guarded by some bees at the top of a tall tree. Join Pooh and Christopher Robin as they devise creative and imaginative ways to get the honey. This story is an adaptation of A.A. Milne’s classic Winnie-the-Pooh tale.

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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.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
ELD-SI.K-3.Narrate — Multilingual learners will… • Share ideas about one's own and others' lived experiences and previous learning • Connect stories with images and representations to add meaning • Ask questions about what others have shared • Recount and restate ideas • Discuss how stories might end or next steps
RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Alabama

ELA21.K.28 — With prompting and support, use text clues to determine main ideas and make predictions about an ending in a literary text.
ELA21.K.3 — Actively participate in teacher-led choral and shared reading experiences.
ELA21.1.23a — Describe the characters and settings, using illustrations and textual evidence from a story.
ELA21.1.9c — Participate in poetry reading, noticing phrasing, rhythm, and rhyme.

Alaska

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about a literary text using key details from the text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, major events, and problem-solution in a story, song, or poem.
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.
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.SL.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
K.RL.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
K.RL.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
1.RL.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Arkansas

K.RC.2.RF — Answer questions about key details in a text.
K.RC.6.RF — Use background knowledge and details, including illustrations, charts, and graphs, to make predictions and inferences about what happens in a text.
K.RC.7.RF — Demonstrate comprehension of age and grade-appropriate texts by speaking or writing.
K.RC.8.RL — Identify the major characters in a text.

California

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
RL.K.10.b — Use illustrations and context to make predictions about text.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
SL.1.4.a — Memorize and recite poems, rhymes, and songs with expression.

Colorado

RWC20-GR.K-S.2-GLE.1-EO.a.i — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
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.
RWC20-GR.PS-S.2-GLE.1-EO.g — Make predictions based on illustrations.
RWC20-GR.PS-S.2-GLE.1-EO.f — Retell stories or information from books through conversation, artistic works, creative movement, or drama.

Connecticut

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
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.

Delaware

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

Florida

ELA.K.R.1.1 — Describe the main character(s), setting, and important events in a story.
ELA.1.R.1.1 — Identify and describe the main story elements in a story.
SC.K.L.14.2 — Recognize that some books and other media portray animals and plants with characteristics and behaviors they do not have in real life.

Georgia

ELAGSEKRL1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
ELAGSEKRL10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
ELAGSEKRL3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
ELAGSE1RL3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
ELAGSE1SL2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Hawaii

K.RL.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
K.RL.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
1.RL.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
1.SL.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
1.RL.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Idaho

K.ODC.OC.2 — With support, confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally by asking and answering questions.
K.RC.TE.3 — Ask and answer questions about key details in texts heard.
1.RC.TE.3 — Ask and answer questions about key details in texts heard or read.
K.RC.L.5 — With support, use evidence from literature read aloud to demonstrate understanding of grade-level texts.
K.RC.L.5b — Describe the connection between characters, settings, and major events in stories heard.

Illinois

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.1.1 — 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.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

Indiana

K.RC.1 — With support, ask and answer questions about main topics and key details in a text heard or read. (E)
K.RC.4 — With support, make predictions about what will happen in a text.
K.CC.4 — Audibly recite poems, rhymes, and songs, and use complete sentences to describe familiar people, places, things, and events. With support, provide additional details on these topics.
K.RC.3 — Identify important elements within a text (e.g., characters, settings, or events). (E)
K.PS.2 — Identify and explain possible uses for an object based on its properties and compare these uses with other students’ ideas.

Iowa

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
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.
SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly when retelling familiar stories or reciting poems, nursery rhymes or lines of a play.

Kansas

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.13 — Listen to high quality prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for Kindergarten.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
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.

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.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer explicit questions about key ideas and details, and make logical inferences to construct meaning from the text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings and major events in a story in order to make meaning of the story development.
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.

Louisiana

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.1.1 — 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.

Maine

R.4.K.a — Ask and answer questions with prompting and support about who, what, when, where, and how.
R.6.K.a — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
R.6.1.a — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, including details about who, what, when, where, and how.
R.10.K.a — With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author or character gives to support points in a text.

Maryland

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, 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.PK.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities 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.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.PK.3 — With prompting and support, act out characters and events from a story or poem read aloud.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
RL.PK.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about a story or poem read aloud.
RL.PK.9 — With prompting and support, make connections between a story or poem and their own experiences.

Michigan

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Minnesota

0.1.4.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text, with prompting and support.
0.2.5.2 — Verbally or visually respond to a story, with support and guidance.
0.3.1.2 — Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media (e.g., poems, rhymes, songs) by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
0.1.4.3 — Identify characters and setting, in a literary text, with prompting and support.
0.1.8.1 — Recognize rhythm, alliteration and repeated lines in a story, poem or song read aloud.

Mississippi

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
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.

Missouri

1.R.1.A.b — asking and responding to relevant questions
K.R.1.A.b — asking and responding to questions about texts read aloud
1.R.1.A.a — predicting what will happen next using prior knowledge
1.R.2.A.e — explain the actions of the main character and the reasons for those actions

Montana

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
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).

Nebraska

LA.K.RP.6 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a literary text.
LA.K.RP.8 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
LA.1.RP.6 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a literary text.
LA.K.SL.1.e — Complete a task following one/two-step directions.
LA.K.RP.2 — With prompting and support, identify main character(s), setting, and important events in a literary text.

Nevada

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
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.

New Hampshire

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.1.3 — 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.

New Jersey

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how).
RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major event(s) in a story, using key details.

New Mexico

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
RL.K.NM.1 — Identify the main topic, retell key details of a text, and make predictions.
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.

New York

KR1 — Develop and answer questions about a text. (RI&RL)
KRF4 — Will engage with emergent level texts and read-alouds to demonstrate comprehension.
KR3 — Identify characters, settings, major events in a story, or pieces of information in a text. (RI&RL)
PKR1 — Participate in discussions about a text. (RI&RL)
PKR3 — Develop and answer questions about characters, major events, and pieces of information in a text. (RI&RL)

North Carolina

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

North Dakota

K.R.2 — Respond to a variety of texts, photographs, or illustrations before, during, and after shared reading or other text-listening experiences to compare, contrast, predict, or infer.
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.
K.R.3.b — Tell about characters and setting in a literary text during or after a shared reading or other text-listening experience.
K-2-ET1-3 — Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.

Ohio

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
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 in various media and other formats (e.g., orally).

Oklahoma

K.3.R.2 — Students will ask and answer basic questions (e.g., who, what, where, and when) about texts, photographs, or illustrations during shared reading or other text experiences with prompting.
K.8.R — Students will listen and respond to read-alouds, participate in shared reading, and interact independently with texts.
K.2.F.2 — Students will recite familiar texts (e.g., rhymes, songs, poetry, etc.).
K.3.R.3 — Students will describe characters and setting in a story with prompting.
PK.3.R.3 — Students will identify characters in a story with prompting.

Oregon

K.RL.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
K.RL.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities 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.
K.RL.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. Identify beginning/middle/end.

Pennsylvania

CC.1.3.K.B — Answer questions about key details in a text.
CC.1.5.K.B — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
CC.1.3.1.B — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CC.1.5.K.A — Participate in collaborative conversations with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
CC.1.3.PK.C — With prompting and support, answer questions to identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

Rhode Island

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
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.

South Carolina

ELA.K.C.9.1 — Ask and answer questions in conversation on a topic.
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.K.C.8.1 — Participate with peers and adults in structured discussions and routines about grade-appropriate topics and texts: a. enter a conversation by greeting, taking turns, and responding to others with statements, phrases, and/or questions; and b. consider the ideas of others while engaging in conversations.
ELA.1.C.9.1 — Listen to others to ask and answer questions on a topic.

South Dakota

1.SL.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud, information presented orally, or through other media.
K.RL.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
1.RL.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
K.RL.3 — With prompting and support, describe characters, settings, and major events in a story.
1.RL.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Tennessee

K.RL.KID.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
K.RL.KID.3 — With prompting and support, orally identify characters, setting, and major events in a story.
1.RL.KID.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
K.RL.RRTC.10 — With prompting and support, read stories and poems of appropriate complexity for Kindergarten.

Texas

K.7C — describe the elements of plot development, including the main events, the problem, and the resolution for texts read aloud with adult assistance; and
1.8C — describe plot elements, including the main events, the problem, and the resolution, for texts read aloud and independently; and
2.8A — demonstrate and explain that sound is made by vibrating matter and that vibrations can be caused by a variety of means, including sound;

Utah

K.R.5 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (RL & RI)
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)
K.R.7 — Identify the characters, settings, and important events in a story (RL) or pieces of information in a text. (RI)
P4.R.5 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions and make connections about a text. (RL & RI)

Vermont

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Washington

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
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.

Washington, D.C.

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.1.1 — 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.

West Virginia

ELA.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a literary text.
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.PK.SL.EL.5 — Engage in storytelling.

Wisconsin

ELA.K.R.1 — With prompting and support, develop and answer questions about a text. (RI&RL)
ELA.K.R.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and important events in a story or pieces of information in a text. (RI&RL)
ELA.K.SL.2 — With guidance and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
ELA.1.R.3 — Describe characters, settings, and important events in a story or pieces of information in a text. (RI&RL)

Wyoming

RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
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.