Maryland ELA RL.K.7
The Standard
With modeling, prompting and support, describe the relationship between the illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g. what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Maryland College and Career Ready Standards for English Language Arts (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Children listen to a story page read aloud and study its picture. They point to a detail that matches something they heard and tell how it connects to the story.
What Mastery Looks Like
- After hearing about a child making tracks in snow, a student points to the marks in the picture and explains what they show. The student can find a matching detail on a new page with a teacher prompt.
Common Misconceptions
- Some children describe everything in the picture without linking it to what they heard. Others point to the biggest object, even when the words are about a smaller detail.
How to Assess It
- Read aloud the page in The Snowy Day where Peter makes tracks. Ask, "Point to the tracks in the picture. How do they show what I just read?"
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Read the apple page of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and have children place a sticky dot on the apple as you reread it.
Show the page where Peter makes tracks in The Snowy Day and ask, "What in the picture shows what Peter did?"
Cover one picture in a familiar storybook, reread its page, then uncover it and have children point to a matching detail.
Give each child a sticky note to mark a bedtime story page and tell a family member which story detail the picture shows.
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