CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.10

ELA1st GradeRange of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

The Standard

With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Informational Text

What This Standard Means

Students need to read first grade nonfiction with teacher support. They should use headings, pictures, captions, and known words to make sense of facts. They should ask and answer questions about the topic, retell key details, and stay with a text that has some new words.

Mastery looks like a child reading or listening closely, pointing to evidence in the book, and explaining what they learned in their own words. Students often get stuck on vocabulary, skipping captions, or treating nonfiction like a story instead of using text features for help.

Ways to Teach It

Give pairs a simple animal book and sticky notes to mark one heading, one caption, and two facts they learned.
Ask, “What did this book teach you, and what page helped you know that?” after a short shared reading.
Listen to each student read one page, then ask for one fact and one picture clue that helped them.
Read a school lunch menu, weather chart, or class pet care sheet and identify what information it gives.