South Dakota ELA 2.RL.10.a
The Standard
- 2.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 that get more challenging across the year. They follow events and use clues from words, pictures, and dialogue to make sense of unfamiliar language or page layouts.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student reads a new, grade-level story and retells the main events in order. They explain a character’s actions using a clue from the story, even when the page layout or timeline changes.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students can read every word but cannot explain why a character acted. Others skip speech bubbles or think an event described as happening yesterday comes after the current scene.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Read, “The curtain rose. Ava’s stomach did flips. Yesterday, she forgot her lines.” Ask, “Why is Ava nervous, and which words tell you?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a two-page story with speech bubbles; have them number the reading order, then retell the character’s problem.
Read a story where a character says, “My stomach did flips”; ask students to write what the character means and name a clue.
Play Story Switch: read two short stories, one told in order and one starting with the ending, then sort event cards by when they happened.
Read a story about a new student, then have students write a welcome note based on what the character needed.
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