Read-Along! Treasure Island

Ages 6–9 · 15 minutes · English, Stories

Ahoy mateys! Arrr you ready for adventure (and reading)? Let's set sail to Treasure Island!

Ahoy mateys! Arrr you ready for adventure (and reading)? Let's set sail to Treasure Island! This lesson adapts to readers of many levels, from those who can read smaller words to those who can read full sentences.

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Read-Along Stories

Standards alignment

Common Core State Standards

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Alabama

ELA21.2.30 — Read and comprehend literary and informational texts.

Alaska

RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry from a variety of cultures of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
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.

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.RF.3.f — Recognize and read grade‐appropriate irregularly spelled words.
1.RL.10 — With prompting and support, read stories, drama, and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
2.RF.4.b — Read on‐level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Arkansas

2.RC.4.RF — Build general and academic vocabulary and background knowledge of age and grade-appropriate topics through discussion, reading, and writing.

California

RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
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.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Colorado

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.2-GLE.3-EO.c.vii — Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.3-EO.d.i — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
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.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-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.

Delaware

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Florida

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.F.1.3 — Use knowledge of grade-appropriate phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words. • Decode words with variable vowel teams (e.g., oo, ea, ou) and vowel diphthongs (e.g., oi, oy, ow). • Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long and short vowels. • Decode words with open (e.g., hi, baby, moment) and closed (e.g., bag, sunshine, chop) syllables and consonant -le (e.g., purple, circle, stumble). • Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes. • Decode words with silent letter combinations (e.g., knight, comb, island, ghost).
ELA.2.F.1.4 — Read grade-level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate prosody or expression.

Georgia

ELAGSE1RF4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
ELAGSE1RL10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
ELAGSE2RF4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
ELAGSE2RL10 — 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.

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.RF.3g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
1.RL.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
2.RF.4b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Idaho

1.FR.PH.3 — Use knowledge of grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
1.FR.PH.3b — Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
1.FR.PH.3h — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words (e.g., what, said, have).
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.FR.PH.3c — Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds (e.g., ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, and oe).
2.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 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.3.f — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-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.

Indiana

2.RF.4 — Orally read decodable/grade-level appropriate or higher texts with fluency (rate, accuracy, and prosody) while reading.
3.RF.5 — Orally read grade-level appropriate or higher texts smoothly and accurately with expression that connotes comprehension.
3.RF.1 — Understand the six major syllable patterns (CVC, CVr, V, VV, VCe, Cle) to aid in decoding unknown words. (E)

Iowa

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.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.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.K.3.c — Read common high-frequency words with accuracy and automaticity (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

Kansas

RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate words.
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.1.13 — With prompting and support, read and comprehend high quality dramas, prose and poetry of appropriate quantitative and qualitative complexity for Grade 1.
RF.2.4.e — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Kentucky

RF.1.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4.b — Orally read grade-level text fluently on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.2.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.2.4.b — Orally read grade-level text fluently on successive readings.

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.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Maine

R.12.1.b — Read various on-level text with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
R.12.1.a — Read various on-level text with purpose and understanding.
R.3.1.g — Recognize and read grade- appropriate irregularly spelled words.
R.3.2.a — Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.

Maryland

RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Massachusetts

RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.1.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.3.f — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.2.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
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.

Michigan

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
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.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Minnesota

2.1.1 — Foundations of Reading Demonstrate knowledge of oral language, phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics and morphology to read accurately and fluently.
2.1.2.1 — Read independently and monitor understanding of grade-level text;self-correct as needed using strategies including, but not limited to, decoding, making text-to-text connections, and building on strategies learned in previous grade levels, with guidance and support.
R1 — Foundations of Reading Demonstrate knowledge of oral language, phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics and morphology to read accurately and fluently.
3.1.1.2.c — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words: read grade-level irregularly spelled words, including high-frequency words, in and out of context, demonstrating both accuracy and automaticity.

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.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Missouri

1.R.1.D.a — engaging with and reading text that is developmentally appropriate
2.R.1.D.a — reading text that is developmentally appropriate

Montana

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-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.

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.F.3.h — Recognize and read grade-appropriate, irregularly spelled words.
LA.2.RP.8 — With scaffolding as needed, read and comprehend a wide range of literary texts of appropriate complexity for Grade 2.

Nevada

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
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.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

New Hampshire

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 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
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.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

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.
RF.2.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read and comprehend stories and poetry at grade level text complexity or above.

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.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

New York

1RF3c — Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
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.
1RF3b — Decode long vowel sounds in regularly spelled one-syllable words (e.g., final –e conventions and common vowel teams).
1RF3g — Read most common high-frequency words by sight
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.
RF.1.5.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.2.5.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read and understand literature of appropriate complexity for grade 1 for sustained periods of time.

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.F.12c — Accurately and automatically read a variety of first-grade texts with expression, phrasing, purpose, and understanding.

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.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
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.
RF.2.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Oklahoma

1.2.F.1 — Students will expand their sight word vocabulary by reading regularly- and irregularly-spelled words in isolation and context with increasing automaticity.
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.1 — Students will expand their sight word vocabulary by reading regularly- and irregularly-spelled words in isolation and context with increasing automaticity.

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.
2.RL.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.

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.1.1.2.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.K — Read and comprehend literature on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.
CC.1.2.K.L — 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.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
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.
RF.2.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

South Carolina

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.2.F.4 — Read and reread grade-appropriate texts with accuracy and expression at an appropriate rate to support comprehension. (FK 1.98-5.34 LF 420-820)

South Dakota

1.RF.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate high frequency words.
1.RF.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
1.RF.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and prosody (stress, phrasing, intonation, and expression) on consecutive readings.
1.RL.10 — By the end of the year, read and comprehend a variety of literary text.

Tennessee

1.FL.F.5.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
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.
2.FL.PWR.3.g — Decode grade-level texts with purpose and understanding.

Texas

2.2B.i — decoding words with short, long, or variant vowels, trigraphs, and blends;
2.2B.iii — decoding multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and final stable syllables;
2.2B.vii — identifying and reading high-frequency words from a research-based list;

Utah

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

Vermont

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-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.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.1.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.

Virginia

1.RV.1.H — Increase and develop breadth of vocabulary knowledge by listening to high quality, complex text.
2.RV.1.G — Develop breadth of vocabulary knowledge by listening to and reading high quality, complex text.

Washington

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Washington, D.C.

RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

West Virginia

ELA.1.I.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
ELA.1.18 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1 in literary texts.
ELA.2.I.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.

Wisconsin

ELA.2.RF.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
ELA.2.RF.4.b — Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
ELA.2.RF.3.f — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
ELA.1.RF.3.f — Read words with inflectional endings (i.e., -s, -ed, -ing).
ELA.1.RF.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Wyoming

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.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
RF.1.3.g — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF.2.4.b — Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.