South Dakota ELA 5.RI.10.a
The Standard
- 5.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 nonfiction articles with unfamiliar terms, diagrams, sidebars, and several sections. They work out what each part says and how it supports the main idea.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain a challenging article's main idea using accurate details from its sections. They use text clues and visuals to explain unfamiliar terms.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students treat diagrams and sidebars as decoration and miss useful facts. Others choose a main idea from the title alone or guess what a word means without checking nearby clues.
How to Assess It
- Give students a one-page article about beaver dams with a sidebar and diagram. Ask, "How do dams change a stream? Use one detail from the article and one from the diagram."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two beaver articles, one plain and one with sidebars and diagrams; have them place sticky notes linking related facts across both.
Ask partners, "What does the sidebar add to the beaver article?" Have them point to a detail in each part.
Set out four short beaver articles, from plain text to sidebar and diagram; pairs score points for answering the same question at each station.
Show a printed park trail guide with a map and rules; students choose a route and cite details from the guide to justify it.
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