Maryland ELA RI.1.10

ELA1st GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

With prompting, modeling, and support Read informational text of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Maryland College and Career Ready Standards for English Language Arts (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read short nonfiction texts with teacher support. They work through unfamiliar words and tell what they learned from the words and pictures.
What Mastery Looks Like: After hearing the teacher model a sentence, a student reads the next sentence with a prompt or help on a hard word. The student can tell one fact from the text.
Common Misconceptions: Some students guess words from the picture without looking at the letters. Others skip captions or think the picture tells them everything they need to know.
How to Assess It: Show a card that says, “Frogs lay eggs in ponds. The eggs hatch into tadpoles.” Read the first sentence aloud, help the student read the second if needed, and ask what hatches from the eggs.

Lesson moves

Give pairs frog photos and short fact cards; help them read each card, then match it to a photo.
After reading a frog page together, ask, “What did the words tell us that the photo did not?”
Play a partner match game with three frog fact cards; students take turns reading a card with help and finding its picture.
Post a sign by the sink that says, “Use soap. Rinse with water.” Read it together before lunch.

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