South Dakota ELA 1.RI.10.a
The Standard
- 1.RI.10
- By the end of the year, read and comprehend a variety of informational text.
Read and comprehend grade-appropriate text with increasing challenge in text difficulty and complexity (e.g., layout, text structure, language/literacy features, and knowledge demands).
South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Read short nonfiction pages that gradually add headings, captions, diagrams, and less familiar words. Tell what each page is mostly about and explain facts using words and pictures.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name the topic and explain two facts from a page with headings and captions. On a harder page, they use a diagram or nearby words to make sense of new information.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may skip captions and labels, missing facts that are not in the paragraphs. They may guess the topic from a photo without checking the words, or treat one detail as the whole point.
How to Assess It
- Give students a one-page frog life cycle text with two short paragraphs and a caption about tadpoles. Ask, "How does a tadpole change? Show one clue from the paragraphs and one from the caption."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two frog fact pages, one plain and one denser with headings and captions; have them mark two facts on each with sticky notes.
After reading a beaver page, ask, "What did the caption teach you that the paragraph did not?"
Hand out animal pages; call out "Find a heading" or "Find a fact in a caption," and have partners point and explain.
Bring a seed packet with a planting diagram and simple directions; ask pairs to find planting depth using the words and picture.
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