South Dakota ELA 1.RL.7

ELA1st GradeReading Literature

The Standard

Use words, illustrations, and details to describe characters, setting, or events in a story including print and digital texts.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students explain what a story page shows about a person, place, or action. They point to a sentence or picture detail that helped them figure it out.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can say the wolf is at the straw house and point to clues in both the sentence and picture. They can explain what the wolf does there using a detail from the page.
Common Misconceptions: Some students guess from the picture without checking the words. Others name a character or place but cannot point to a clue that supports their answer.
How to Assess It: Show the page where the wolf visits the straw house in The Three Little Pigs. Ask, "Which house is he at? Point to one clue in the words and one in the picture."

Lesson moves

Give pairs a printed story page and crayons. Have them circle a word clue and box a picture clue about the main character.
After reading The Three Little Pigs, ask, "How do you know which house the wolf visits first?" Have partners point to clues.
Play Who, Where, What? Read a story page aloud, then have students place counters on cards that name the character, place, and action.
Show a class photo with a handwritten caption. Ask students to tell where it was taken using one clue from the photo and one from the caption.

Free download

A ready-to-print activity worksheet aligned to 1.RL.7, with an answer key for the teacher on its own page. No account needed.

PDF, US Letter, prints cleanly in black and white.

Keep exploring

Grade, subject, topic, and the complete standard are prefilled. Create one free, no account needed.