South Dakota ELA 3.RI.10.a
The Standard
- 3.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 grade-level nonfiction that gradually gets harder, from a short article to one with sidebars and new terms. They use headings, diagrams, and context clues to explain what they read.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can read an unfamiliar article with several sections and explain its main point using accurate details. They can explain what a caption adds and use nearby words to work out a new term.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may skip captions and sidebars, then miss facts they need. They may mistake one interesting detail for the main point or guess a new word's meaning from how it sounds.
How to Assess It
- Hand out a cloud article with headings, a rain diagram, and a context clue for precipitation. Ask students to name the main point, define precipitation, and explain one fact the diagram adds, using a clue for each answer.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Pairs use sticky notes to match a cloud article's headings, captions, and diagrams to paragraphs that explain them.
After reading a cloud article, ask students to write how its diagram helped them understand rain, using one detail from the text.
Give teams three cloud passages with harder layouts or new terms; award a point for each answer backed by a text clue.
Read a local weather forecast with students; ask them to use the map key, labels, and text to explain tomorrow's forecast.
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