📚 Success Criteria - I Can Statements

I can:

• Identify key events in a story
• Explain the lesson or moral of a story
• Use text evidence to support my answers
• Write complete sentences to explain my thinking

📖 Part A: Reading Comprehension

Read this passage from "The Letter" in Frog and Toad Are Friends:

Toad was feeling sad because he never got any mail. Frog wanted to help his friend feel better, so he went home and wrote Toad a letter. The letter said, "Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog." Then Frog asked a snail to deliver the letter to Toad's house.

✏️ Part B: Written Response

🎯 Differentiation Support

For Emerging Readers:

• Read the passage aloud with a partner or adult
• Use the pictures in the book to help understand the story
• Start your written answer with: "The lesson is..."

For English Language Learners:

• Discuss the meaning of "moral" and "lesson" before starting
• Draw a picture to show the lesson before writing
• Use a graphic organizer: Problem → Solution → Lesson

Vocabulary Support:

Moral: The lesson or message that a story teaches us _______________

Evidence: Details from the story that support your answer _______________