Florida B.E.S.T. ELA.1.R.2.1

ELA1st GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

Use text features including titles, headings, captions, graphs, maps, glossaries, and/or illustrations to demonstrate understanding of texts.

Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students locate features on a nonfiction page and explain what information each one gives. They use those clues to answer questions about the topic.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can identify a feature and explain how it helps with a fact, place, or word meaning. The student chooses a useful feature to answer a question.
Common Misconceptions: Students may confuse a heading with a caption or treat illustrations as decoration. They may copy words from a feature without explaining what information it gives.
How to Assess It: Give students a nonfiction page with a title, picture, and caption. Ask, “Which feature tells what the animal eats? Circle it and state the fact.”

Lesson moves

Give pairs sticky notes to label the title, heading, caption, picture, graph, map, and glossary on nonfiction pages.
Show one page and ask, “Which feature helped you most, and what did it teach you?”
Play Feature Hunt by calling out clues while students point to the matching feature in a nonfiction book.
Examine a weather map and simple temperature graph, then have students tell what each one shows.

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