CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.10
The Standard
By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4—5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Informational Text
What This Standard Means
Students need to read grade-level nonfiction with purpose and stamina. They should handle articles, textbook pages, timelines, diagrams, captions, headings, and directions. They need to pull out main ideas, key details, domain words, and text features, then explain what the text says without guessing or copying everything.
Mastery looks like a student reading a science or history passage, tracking the structure, using context for hard words, and answering with text evidence. Students often get stuck on dense paragraphs, unfamiliar vocabulary, and skipping diagrams or captions. Many can find facts but struggle to explain how the parts fit together.
Ways to Teach It
- Give pairs a short science article, sticky notes, and a diagram, then have them tag main idea, key details, and helpful text features.
- Ask students to write, “What did the author most want me to understand, and what sentence or feature helped me know?”
- Use a one-page nonfiction passage and ask for one main idea, two details, and one word solved from context.
- Bring in a recipe, game manual, or park brochure and have students explain how the text helps a reader complete a real task.
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