South Dakota ELA 1.RI.5

ELA1st GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

Recognize various text features and their relationship to each other or the whole.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025) · Craft and Structure

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students find headings, photos, and captions on an information page. They explain how a caption connects to a photo and how both fit the page’s topic.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student matches a caption to the right photo and tells what the words add. They explain how the photo and caption help readers understand the heading.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think a caption only repeats what they can see in a photo. They may connect a caption to the wrong photo or think a heading is just decoration.
How to Assess It: Give students a page titled “How Turtles Stay Safe” with a photo of a turtle in its shell and the caption “A turtle hides in its shell.” Ask, “How do the title, photo, and caption work together?”

Lesson moves

Give pairs a printed frog page; have them match cutout captions to photos and circle the heading that fits both.
Show a bird nest photo captioned “A robin uses grass”; ask, “How do the photo and caption explain the heading Bird Nests?”
Play feature match with three short pages: students pair each heading with its photo and caption, then tell why the set belongs together.
Show a seed packet with a plant photo and label; ask how both help a gardener choose what to grow.

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