Curriculum Planning Ideas/Teaching Strategies for the California CCSS Reading Standards for Literature- Key Ideas and Details, Kindergarten: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. Do you want good answers? Begin by asking good questions. An idea to help students identify the characters, settings, and major events in a story is to have students question each other. Asking and answering questions about text will help educators gage the comprehension of the text. To help students identify the characters in a story, after reading a story have your class do an activity called “Hot Seat.” The teacher chooses a student to come to the front and sit in the “Hot Seat.” The student chooses a character from