California Common Core State Standards - English Language Arts

• RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
• RL.1.5 Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
• L.1.6 Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., because).
• L.1.5.c Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy).