South Dakota ELA 3.SL.4
The Standard
Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with relevant facts and, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students prepare a short talk about something they read, learned, or experienced. They choose useful facts or details, put them in order, and speak so listeners can follow.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student tells the main events of a class story in order and adds details that help classmates picture what happened. Classmates can hear each word and follow without asking the student to slow down.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students list facts with no clear order or add details that distract from the topic. Others rush through key events or think speaking louder will make rushed words clearer.
How to Assess It
- Have each student record a 30-second retell of a book read this week, naming two events in order and one detail that helps a listener picture the scene. Listen for clear words and a pace you can follow.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs three picture cards to arrange, then have each student tell the story using a detail from each card.
Ask students to write three notes about a favorite animal, then explain which note would help a listener picture it.
Play a 30-second retell game: partners draw a topic card, speak, then check whether the listener heard who, what, and where.
Have students give a morning announcement about a class event, naming its time and place so the back row can hear.
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Related Standards
- K.W.3
Narrate a story, telling about the events in chronological order with a character and setting using a combination of drawing, dictating and writing.
- 4.SL.4
Present on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support ...
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