Maryland ELA RI.K.10

ELAKindergartenReading Informational Text

The Standard

With prompting, modeling, and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for kindergarten.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Children read kindergarten nonfiction books with teacher modeling and support. They use the words and pictures to tell what a page teaches.
What Mastery Looks Like: During shared reading, a child answers a question about the text and points to the page that helped. They can do this with more than one nonfiction book.
Common Misconceptions: Children may guess from what they already know instead of checking the page. Some think they must read every word alone, even when the teacher is there to help.
How to Assess It: Read a short nonfiction page about a plant aloud. Ask, “What did you learn, and where on the page did you find it?”

Lesson moves

Read a short book about seeds together, then have children match seed, sprout, and plant photos to pages in the book.
After reading a page about frogs, ask, “What does this page teach us, and which picture or words helped you?”
Play page detective: reread an animal book, name a fact from it, and have children find the page that shows it.
Bring in a seed packet, read its picture labels together, and match it to a real seed and a plant photo.

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