South Dakota ELA 5.RI.3
The Standard
Explain the relationships and interactions between individuals, events, ideas, concepts, or steps in procedures in historical, scientific, or technical text using text evidence.
South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how people, events, ideas, or steps in a nonfiction text affect one another. They point to words or sentences that show the connection.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can trace how one event leads to another and explain what changed. They use details from the text to support the link, rather than guessing.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may list events in order without explaining how they connect. They may assume that an event caused the next one just because it came first.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, print: “Rain filled the creek, and water spilled over its banks onto the road.” Ask how the rain affected the road, and have students underline the words that support their answer.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a seed germination passage, step cards, and yarn to link each cause to its effect, with a text quote beside each link.
Read a paragraph on bee pollination, then ask students to write how a bee’s visit helps a plant make seeds, using one quoted detail.
Play cause-and-effect match: students pair event cards from a storm passage with evidence cards, then explain each match aloud.
Post a sample bus-delay notice with a cause and new arrival time; students explain how the cause affects arrival and cite the notice.
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Related Standards
- 4.RI.3
Explain the relationship between events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical procedures text, using evidence from the text.
- 2.RI.3
Explain the relationships between historical events, scientific ideas, or technical procedures in a text.
- 3.RI.3
Explain the relationship between events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical procedures text.
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