South Dakota ELA 1.RL.1

ELA1st GradeReading Literature

The Standard

Ask and answer questions about key ideas and details in a text.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students ask questions about what happens in a story and who is involved. They answer using details they heard or read, not guesses.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can ask, 'What did the wolf do to the straw house?' and answer that he blew it down. The student can point to a picture or part of the story that supports the answer.
Common Misconceptions: Some students answer from what they think would happen instead of what the story says. Others ask questions the story cannot answer, such as what a character ate for breakfast when no food is mentioned.
How to Assess It: After reading The Three Little Pigs, ask, 'What happened to the straw house?' Then have each student ask and answer one more question about the story.

Lesson moves

Give pairs sticky notes to mark a character's action in a picture book, then ask each other what happened at each mark.
After reading The Three Little Pigs, ask, 'What did the wolf do to the straw house?' Have partners point to a supporting picture.
Put who, what, and where cards in a bag; students draw one, ask about a familiar story, and let a partner answer.
After reading Corduroy, ask where he searched for a button, then have students check a coat for buttons and compare.

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