CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.10
The Standard
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4—5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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 independently read challenging nonfiction in science, history, and technical subjects. They make sense of main ideas, details, vocabulary, text structures, and graphics without relying on teacher explanation.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can read an unfamiliar, challenging nonfiction text without teacher support. They can summarize key ideas, explain vocabulary from context, use text features, and support answers with accurate evidence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat fast, accurate reading as proof of understanding. They may copy sentences instead of summarizing, skip unfamiliar terms, or overlook headings, diagrams, and text structure.
How to Assess It
- Give students an unfamiliar one-page science or history article. Ask them to state the main idea, cite two supporting details, and explain one unfamiliar term using context.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students sticky notes to label main ideas, supporting details, unfamiliar words, and helpful text features in a challenging article.
After reading, students write: Which section was hardest to understand, and what reading move helped you make sense of it?
Run an evidence hunt where students race to locate and explain the strongest sentence supporting each claim card.
Students read appliance instructions or a park guide, then explain the steps, warnings, and text features that help a user.
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