CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.7
The Standard
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Literature
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students gather clues from both the illustrations and the written text. They use those clues together to explain characters, setting, or plot events.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students identify useful details from both the illustrations and the words. They explain how those details help them understand a character's feelings, the setting, or what is happening in the story.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may rely only on the picture or only on the words. They may name visible details without explaining what those details reveal about the character, setting, or events.
How to Assess It
- Show one page from an unfamiliar picture book. Ask students to write what they learned about the character, setting, or plot, using one word clue and one picture clue.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a picture book page and sticky notes to label one picture clue, one word clue, and what each reveals.
Ask students to discuss: What do the picture and words together show that either one alone does not?
Play Clue Sort with detail cards, placing each under Picture, Words, or Both, then connecting it to character, setting, or plot.
Read a digital story page and compare its image and caption, as students might do when reading stories on a library website.
Learning progression
Where This Standard Sits
See the whole path on the Reading: Literature progression map.
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