South Dakota ELA 4.RL.10.a
The Standard
- 4.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, poems, and plays with increasingly complex language, structure, and ideas. They use clues in the text to follow events and work out meaning.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can follow a shift in time and explain a figurative phrase. They can point to a line that supports their answer and reread when something does not make sense.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may mistake a memory for the next event in a story. They may take figurative language literally or skip an unfamiliar detail instead of checking nearby clues.
How to Assess It
- Give students a one-page story with a brief flashback and a figurative phrase. Ask: “What happened before the opening scene? Which line tells you? What does the phrase mean here?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs event cards from a story with a flashback; have them order the events and underline the time clues in the story.
Read a poem with the line “The moon was a lantern,” then ask students to write what the image helps them picture.
Run a clue hunt with a short play script; students circle stage directions and explain how each one changes the scene.
Pair a folktale set in a market with a market photo; students use the photo to explain one unfamiliar story detail.
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