Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.2.7

ELA2nd GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

Identify information gained from visuals and words in the text and explain how that information contributes to understanding of the text.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read an information page and study its pictures or diagrams. They name a detail learned from the words and a detail learned from a visual, then explain how the visual helps them understand the topic.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can point to a detail in the words and a detail in a diagram, and say where each came from. They explain what the diagram adds to the passage.
Common Misconceptions: Some students treat pictures as decoration and skip them. Others say a picture helps without naming what it shows, or claim it shows something that is not there.
How to Assess It: On an exit ticket, write 'Tadpoles change as they grow' beside sketches of a long-tailed tadpole and a short-tailed froglet with legs. Ask, 'What change do the sketches show, and how does that help you understand the sentence?'

Lesson moves

Place a short frog life cycle passage beside a labeled diagram; students mark one fact learned from each and connect them with an arrow.
After reading a page about tadpoles, ask, 'What does the picture show that the words leave out, and why does it help?'
Give pairs frog picture cards and sentence strips; they match each strip to a card and name one detail the picture adds.
Show a pond sign with a frog drawing and the caption 'Tadpoles grow into frogs'; ask what each tells visitors about pond life.

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