South Dakota ELA 2.RI.10.a
The Standard
- 2.RI.10
- 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).
South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read fact articles and explain what they learned using details from the words and pictures. As articles add sections, captions, and unfamiliar words, students use those clues to follow the ideas.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain the main idea of an article with several sections and point to supporting details. They can use a caption or nearby sentence to work out an unfamiliar word.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students skip captions and labels, even when those carry key facts. Others assume each section is about an unrelated topic or guess a word from a picture without checking the sentence.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short duck article with a labeled foot diagram. Ask, “How do a duck’s feet help it swim? Use one detail from the writing and one from the diagram.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two frog articles, one with short paragraphs and one with headings and captions; have them highlight where each answers a question.
Ask, “What did the caption tell you that the paragraph did not?” Have partners point to both parts before answering.
Play a feature hunt with a two-page article: call out “find a word’s meaning” or “find a fact in a diagram.”
Use a library event flyer; students use its headings and small-print notes to find the time and age group for a read-aloud.
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