CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.7
The Standard
Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
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 examine the pictures and words on an informational page. They tell what the page is mostly teaching and explain how both sources provide clues.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can state what an informational page is mostly teaching. The student points to a useful part of the picture and a matching detail from the words as evidence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name objects in the picture without explaining what the page teaches. They may use only the picture or only the words. They may also choose an interesting fact that does not support the main idea.
How to Assess It
- Give students a one-page animal text with a photograph. Ask, "What does this page teach, and what clue from the picture and words helped you know?"
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a nonfiction page, two sticky-note colors, and ask them to mark one picture clue and one sentence clue.
Read a page aloud, then ask, "What is this page mostly teaching us, and which picture and words helped you know?"
Play Clue Match: students pair sentence cards with picture cards, then state the idea both clues support.
Study a classroom safety poster and have students explain its message using one visual feature and one written detail.
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.7
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.7
Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, an...
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.7
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.3
Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
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