Florida B.E.S.T. ELA.1.F.1.1
The Standard
Locate the title, table of contents, names of author(s) and illustrator(s), and glossary of books.
Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find key information on a book’s cover and opening or closing pages. They name each part and tell how it helps a reader.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students quickly point to each requested book part. They explain that the author writes, the illustrator makes pictures, and contents pages and glossaries help readers find information.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse the title with a chapter heading. They may mix up the author and illustrator, or expect every book to have a contents page and glossary.
How to Assess It
- Give each student a book and four sticky notes labeled Title, Creators, Contents, and Glossary. Have students place each note correctly and explain one choice.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a nonfiction book and sticky notes, then have them mark the title, creator names, contents page, and glossary.
Ask students to write one sentence explaining where they would look to find a word’s meaning or a chapter’s page number.
Place book-part cards around the room, call out a clue, and have students move to the matching card.
Use a cookbook to find a recipe in the contents and define an unfamiliar cooking word in the glossary.
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Related Standards
- ELA.K.R.2.1
Use titles, headings, and illustrations to predict and confirm the topic of texts.
- ELA.1.R.2.1
Use text features including titles, headings, captions, graphs, maps, glossaries, and/or illustrations to demonstrate understanding of texts.
- ELA.2.R.2.1
Explain how text features—including titles, headings, captions, graphs, maps, glossaries, and/or illustrations—contribute to the meaning of texts.
- ELA.K.R.3.1
Identify and explain descriptive words in text(s).
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