Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.1.7
The Standard
Use the visuals and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use pictures and words on a nonfiction page to explain its main points. They point to a visual detail and a text detail that support what they say.
What Mastery Looks Like
- On a page about seeds, a student explains that seeds need water to sprout. They point to a watering picture and the sentence about water. They can do the same with a new page.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students list things they see in the picture without saying what the page teaches. Others guess from the picture alone, even when the words say something different. Some overlook captions that help explain a picture.
How to Assess It
- Show a page with a photo of a beaver dam and the sentence, "Beavers use sticks to build dams." Ask, "What does this page teach? Show a clue in the photo and a clue in the sentence."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed page about frogs; have them circle a picture detail, underline a matching sentence, and tell what both teach.
Show a photo of a turtle tucked into its shell and read a sentence about protection; ask, "How do both explain what the shell does?"
Make cards with picture clues, text details, and key ideas from a page about ants; students match them in sets of three.
Read a recycling poster with photos and captions; ask students to name one sorting rule and show the picture and words that explain it.
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Related Standards
- RI.6.2
Analyze how the central ideas are reflected in a text by citing particular details and/or providing an objective summary.
- RI.2.7
Identify information gained from visuals and words in the text, and explain how that information contributes to understanding of the text.
- RI.K.7
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between visuals and the text.
- RL.1.7
Use a story's illustrations and details to describe its characters, setting and events.
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