CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.6
The Standard
Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Informational Text
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students tell what they learn from an illustration and what they learn from the written sentences. They explain where each detail comes from.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given an informational page, a student can name a detail shown only in the picture and a detail stated only in the words. The student can also identify a detail found in both.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may mix picture details with facts stated in the sentences. They may also add facts from their own knowledge or assume the picture and words always show the same information.
How to Assess It
- Show one page from an informational book. Ask, “Write one fact you learned from the picture and one fact you learned from the words.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students sticky notes to label page details as Picture, Words, or Both, then place each note beside its source.
Read a short animal page and ask, “What does the picture teach us that the words do not?”
Play Detail Detective by showing facts from a page and having students hold up Picture, Words, or Both cards.
Examine a cereal box and sort facts learned from the package images, written labels, or both.
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