King Midas Read-Along

Ages 6–10 · 9 minutes · English, Stories

King Midas can turn things gold! What could go wrong? Read along with the story!

In this read-along, kids will meet King Midas, a man who gets the power to turn all he touches into gold. Is that really as glittering of a gift as it seems? Follow along with the story and get some reading practice along the way. This lesson will adapt to readers of many levels, from those who can read short words to those who can read full sentences.

Part of

Stories from Greek Mythology

Standards alignment

Common Core State Standards

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RL.2.2 — Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

Alabama

ELA21.3.22c — Identify the central message, theme, or moral in a story, including myths, fables, and folktales, and explain the meaning conveyed in the passage.
ELA21.4.15c — Make an inference about a character's behavior, the setting, and/or specific events, using explicit details from the story.
ELA21.4.6 — Read grade-level text orally with appropriate pauses, phrasing, stress, intonation, rate, and integration to support comprehension.

Alaska

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.4.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, 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.

Arizona

1.RF.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.RF.4.b — Read on‐level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
1.RL.10 — With prompting and support, read stories, drama, and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
1.SL.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
2.RF.4.b — Read on‐level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Arkansas

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.2.RF — Answer questions about key details in a text.
1.RC.6.RF — Demonstrate comprehension of age and grade-appropriate texts by speaking or writing.
2.RC.5.RF — Use background knowledge and details, including illustrations, charts, and graphs, to make predictions and inferences about what happens in a text.

California

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10.b — Confirm predictions about what will happen next 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.

Colorado

RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.3-EO.d.i — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.3-EO.d.ii — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.
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.2-S.2-GLE.3-EO.b.ii — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.

Connecticut

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Delaware

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.2.2 — Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

Florida

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.1.R.1.2 — Identify and explain the moral of a story.

Georgia

ELAGSE4RF4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Hawaii

1.RF.4a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.RF.4b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
1.RL.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
1.RL.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
K.RL.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Idaho

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.TE.3 — Ask and answer questions about key details in texts heard or read.
1.RC.V.2 — Regularly engage in reading and listening to a series of texts related to the topics and themes being studied to build knowledge and vocabulary.
2.RC.L.5a — Identify the central message, lesson, or moral of stories (including fables and folktales) from diverse cultures heard or read.

Illinois

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RL.2.2 — Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

Indiana

1.RC.4 — Make and confirm predictions about what will happen next in a story.
2.RF.4 — Orally read decodable/grade-level appropriate or higher texts with fluency (rate, accuracy, and prosody) while reading.
2.RC.1 — Ask and answer questions about the main idea and key details in a text to demonstrate comprehension. (E)
1.RC.2 — Retell stories, fables, and fairy tales in sequence, including key details, and demonstrate comprehension of their central message or lesson.

Iowa

RF.1.4.c — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.2.4.c — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read stories and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Kansas

RL.1.13 — With prompting and support, read and comprehend high quality dramas, prose and poetry of appropriate quantitative and qualitative complexity for Grade 1.
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.

Louisiana

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.4.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.b — Recognize and understand the central message or lesson.

Maine

R.12.1.a — Read various on-level text with purpose and understanding.
R.12.1.b — Read various on-level text with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
R.12.1.c — Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
R.12.2.a — Read various on-level text with purpose and understanding.
R.12.2.b — Read various on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Maryland

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Massachusetts

RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
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.

Michigan

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
RL.2.2 — Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

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.
1.1.1.3 — Read decodable texts accurately and with automaticity.
0.1.1.3 — Read decodable texts accurately, with guidance and support. (Decodable texts are those that include words taught in phonics lesson.)

Mississippi

RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
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.
RF.2.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Missouri

1.R.1.D.a — engaging with and reading text that is developmentally appropriate
1.R.1.A — Develop and demonstrate reading skills in response to reading text and read-alouds by:
2.R.1.D.a — reading text that is developmentally appropriate
K.R.1.A.b — asking and responding to questions about texts read aloud

Montana

RF.2.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
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.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.
LA.1.RP.6 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a literary text.
LA.2.RP.6 — Ask and answer literal (e.g., recall/details) and simple inferential (e.g., why or how) questions about key details in a literary text.

Nevada

RF.2.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.2.2 — Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
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

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

New Jersey

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

New Mexico

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.NM.1 — Identify the main topic, retell key details of a text, and make predictions;
RL.1.NM.2 — Identify characters and simple story lines from selected myths and stories from around the world.

New York

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.
1R1 — Develop and answer questions about key ideas and details in a text. (RI&RL)
2RF4a — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

North Carolina

RF.1.5.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read and understand literature of appropriate complexity for grade 1 for sustained periods of time.
RF.2.5.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

North Dakota

1.F.12 — Read accurately and automatically
1.F.12a — Read accurately and automatically at the word level
1.F.12b — Read accurately and automatically at the sentence level
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

RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
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.
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).
RF.1.3.f — Read words with inflectional endings.

Oklahoma

K.8.R — Students will listen and respond to read-alouds, participate in shared reading, and interact independently with texts.
1.2.F.2 — Students will orally and accurately read grade-level text at a smooth rate with expression that connotes comprehension.
2.2.F.2 — Students will orally and accurately read grade-level text at a smooth rate with expression that connotes comprehension.

Oregon

1.RF.4a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.RL.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
2.RF.4a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
K.RL.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Pennsylvania

CC.1.1.1.E — Read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. • Read on-level text with purpose and understanding. • Read on-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.
CC.1.3.1.B — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CC.1.3.1.K — Read and comprehend literature on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.
CC.1.3.K.K — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Rhode Island

RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
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.
RF.2.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

South Carolina

ELA.1.F.4.2 — Read texts orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.
ELA.1.F.4.3 — Read texts by: a. using letter-sound knowledge to segment and blend sounds together; b. decoding the words by analogy; and c. using context and visuals from the text to support monitoring and self-correcting.
ELA.2.F.4.2 — Read texts orally and silently with accuracy, appropriate rate, expression, and intonation.

South Dakota

1.RF.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and prosody (stress, phrasing, intonation, and expression) on consecutive readings.
1.RF.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.SL.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud, information presented orally, or through other media.
2.RF.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and prosody (stress, phrasing, intonation, and expression) on consecutive readings.

Tennessee

1.FL.PWR.3.h — Read grade-level decodable text with purpose and understanding.
1.RL.RRTC.10 — With prompting and support, read stories and poems of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
1.RL.KID.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
1.SL.CC.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
2.RL.RRTC.10 — Read and comprehend stories and poems throughout the grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding at the high end as needed.

Texas

1.8C — describe plot elements, including the main events, the problem, and the resolution, for texts read aloud and independently; and
1.2B.v — decoding words with inflectional endings, including -ed, -s, and -es; and
1.8A — discuss topics and determine theme using text evidence with adult assistance;

Utah

1.R.4 — Read grade-level text* with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. (RL & RI)
2.R.4 — Read grade-level text* with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. (RL & RI)
1.R.3.i — Read and spell common irregular words.

Vermont

RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.2.2 — Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Virginia

2.RL.1.D — Generate predictions about story characters and events using the text.
1.RL.1.C — Ask and answer literal (who, what, when, where) or inferential (how, why) questions about what is read.
1.RV.1.H — Increase and develop breadth of vocabulary knowledge by listening to high quality, complex text.

Washington

RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
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.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

West Virginia

ELA.1.18 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1 in literary texts.
ELA.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a literary text.
ELA.2.18 — By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2–3 text complexity range proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
ELA.K.18 — Actively engage in group reading activities of literary texts with purpose and understanding.

Wisconsin

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.R.1 — Develop and answer questions about key ideas and details in a text. (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.
ELA.K.RF.4 — Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

Wyoming

RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.