South Dakota ELA 2.RI.5

ELA2nd GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

Use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students use headings, captions, tables of contents, and other text features to find facts in nonfiction books. They read the words they find to check the answer.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given a question, a student picks a useful feature instead of reading every line. They find the fact and show which feature helped them.
Common Misconceptions: Some students read from the first page instead of using headings to find the right section. Others treat a picture as proof of a fact that its caption does not state.
How to Assess It: Give students a sheet with a heading, 'Home,' above 'Frogs live near water,' and a heading, 'Food,' above 'Frogs eat insects.' Ask, 'Where do frogs live, and which heading helped you find that fact?'

Lesson moves

Give pairs a one-page animal article with a heading and photo caption; have them mark both with sticky notes and find one fact from each.
Show a page with a Food heading and an eating photo caption; ask, 'Which would you check first to learn what the animal eats?'
Play feature hunt with a nonfiction book; call out a fact to find and have pairs point to the heading or index entry that helps.
Bring a museum brochure with a map and headings; ask students to find the dinosaur exhibit and name the feature they used.

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