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
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read and understand informational texts from science, history, social studies, and technical subjects. They identify key ideas, connect supporting details, interpret vocabulary, and use text features to make meaning.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students independently summarize grade-level articles and explain ideas using accurate text evidence. They handle harder passages by rereading, using text features, and working out unfamiliar words without losing the overall meaning.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may read every word accurately but miss the main idea. They may copy details instead of explaining them, or ignore headings, captions, diagrams, and context clues. Some give up when vocabulary or sentence structure becomes difficult.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short science or history article at the upper end of the grade band. Ask them to state the main idea, cite two supporting details, and explain one unfamiliar word.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Cut apart an article, then have pairs match paragraphs, headings, captions, and diagrams while explaining how each part supports understanding.
Read a challenging history passage and write which sentence was hardest, why it was difficult, and what strategy made it clearer.
Run a text evidence relay where teams locate details supporting a stated main idea and record the paragraph number.
Have students read appliance instructions or a community notice, then explain the key information and any steps a reader must follow.
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