South Dakota ELA 1.RI.7

ELA1st GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

Use words or images to describe key ideas in print and digital texts.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students figure out what a fact page is mostly teaching. They show that idea with a drawing or their own words, using clues from the page or screen.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can read or listen to a short page about frogs, then draw or say that frogs grow from tadpoles. They can point to a picture or sentence that supports their idea.
Common Misconceptions: Some students pick a small detail, like a frog's color, instead of the main idea. Others describe the biggest picture without checking what the words say.
How to Assess It: Show a printed seed page and a screenshot of a short seed article. Ask students to draw or write what each mostly teaches and circle a clue on each.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a printed frog fact page and a screenshot; have them draw one key idea from each on sticky notes.
Read a page about bees and ask, 'What does this page mostly teach us, and what helped you tell?'
Play a matching game with three animal fact pages and three drawings that show each page's main idea.
Show a recycling poster and a local recycling webpage; have students draw what both teach about the recycling bin.

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