South Dakota ELA 2.RI.10
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By the end of the year, read and comprehend a variety of informational text. Read and comprehend grade-appropriate text with increasing challenge in text difficulty and complexity (e.g., layout, text structure, language features, and knowledge demands). Self-select text for personal enjoyment, interest, and academic tasks with guidance and support.
South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)
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What Students Need to Do
- Students read different nonfiction books and articles, including pages with headings, diagrams, and unfamiliar words. They explain what they learned and try more challenging pages as their reading grows. With guidance, they choose texts for their interests or a class question.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can read a new nonfiction page and explain its main idea with a detail. They use a heading, caption, or diagram to understand the page and choose a useful text for a question or an interest.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students skip captions and miss facts they add. Others guess at an unfamiliar word without checking nearby sentences or a diagram. Some pick the easiest book even when it does not answer their question.
How to Assess It
- Offer two short animal articles with headings and captions. Have students choose one, write a fact they learned, name a feature that helped, and explain why they chose it.
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Ways to Teach It
Set out a simple frog article and a harder one with a life-cycle diagram; students mark facts learned from each with sticky notes.
Read a page on how bees make honey, then ask: 'What did the diagram show that the sentences did not?'
Play a fact hunt with three short articles; partners use headings and captions to answer, 'How does this animal stay safe?'
Offer two short plant guides; students choose one to answer, 'What does our class seedling need?' and use a fact to plan its care.
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