South Dakota ELA 1.RL.10.a
The Standard
- 1.RL.10
- By the end of the year, read and comprehend a variety of literary texts.
Read and comprehend grade-appropriate texts with increasing challenge in text difficulty and complexity (e.g., layout, text structure, language/literary features, knowledge demands).
South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read stories they can mostly handle on their own, then try stories with more dialogue, new words, or different page layouts. They keep track of who is speaking and what happens.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can read a short story with dialogue and explain who speaks and what happens in order. When a page is confusing, they reread it and use the words and pictures to check their understanding.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may read dialogue as if the narrator is speaking or miss a time change such as “the next morning.” They may retell only what the pictures show and skip events stated in the words.
How to Assess It
- Have students read: “It rained last night. In the morning, Jo put on boots. ‘Look at that puddle!’ Jo said. She jumped in.” Ask who speaks and when Jo puts on boots, then have students point to the words that tell them.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a story with speech bubbles; have them place character cards beside each bubble, then retell the story in order.
After students read a short story with a surprise ending, ask which sentence changed what they thought would happen.
Play clue match: students read story strips, match each to a who, where, or what happened card, and point to proof.
Give students a short story about losing a backpack, then ask how the character’s problem compares with something that happened at school.
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