South Dakota ELA 4.RI.10.b

ELA4th GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

4.RI.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend a variety of informational text.

Self-select text for personal enjoyment, interest, and academic tasks.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students choose informational texts to read for fun, to follow an interest, or to complete a school task. They look at titles, pictures, and pages to decide which text fits their purpose.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can pick a magazine article they want to read and explain what caught their interest. For a class question, they can choose a useful source and point to where they expect to find the answer.
Common Misconceptions: Some students pick a book by its cover without checking what is inside. Others think the longest book is always the best choice for a school task, even when a shorter text answers their question.
How to Assess It: Set out a shark fact sheet, a cookbook page, and a soccer magazine page. Ask students to choose one to learn about sharks and one to read for fun, then explain both choices.

Lesson moves

Set out animal books, kid magazines, and comics; have students browse, choose one, and show a page that caught their eye.
Ask, “Which would you choose to learn about tornadoes: a weather guide, a joke book, or a sports magazine? Why?”
Give pairs three reading requests and six book covers; have them match each request to a book and defend one match.
Show a school lunch menu and a cookbook; ask which students would read to choose lunch and which to find a recipe.

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