South Dakota ELA 6.RI.2.b

ELA6th GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

Identify key textual details to support the analysis.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students find facts, examples, or numbers in an informational text that help answer a question about it. They explain how each detail backs up a claim about the text.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student points to shaded and sunny pavement temperatures to support a claim that trees cool sidewalks. They explain why those numbers help more than a fact about birds.
Common Misconceptions: Students may copy the first fact they see, even if it does not support their claim. They may list details without explaining how the details help.
How to Assess It: Put this passage on the board: 'Pavement beneath a tree measured 80°F. Pavement in full sun measured 93°F. Trees also provide homes for birds.' Ask, 'Which details support the claim that trees cool sidewalks, and how do they support it?'

Lesson moves

Give pairs a short article about street trees and two highlighters; have them mark cooling evidence in one color and unrelated facts in another.
After reading the article, ask: 'Which detail best shows that trees cool streets, and why is it stronger than another detail?'
Play evidence match: put three claims and six details from the article on cards, then have teams match each claim to its best detail.
Compare fiber numbers on two cereal boxes and write which numbers support a claim that one cereal has more fiber.

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