South Dakota ELA K.RI.1

ELAKindergartenReading Informational Text

The Standard

Ask and answer questions about key ideas and details in a text read aloud with prompting and support.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Children listen to a nonfiction text read aloud. With a prompt or reread, they ask questions about what it teaches and answer using details from the text or pictures.
What Mastery Looks Like: After hearing a book about frog life cycles, a child asks, 'How does a tadpole change?' After a reread, they answer a question about frogs with a detail from the book.
Common Misconceptions: Children may answer with something they already know about frogs instead of a fact from the book. They may ask about an unrelated picture detail or answer a different question from the one asked.
How to Assess It: Read aloud: 'Penguins use their flippers to swim. Their feathers keep them warm.' Ask each child to pose one question the text answers, then answer, 'What helps penguins swim?'

Lesson moves

Read a seed book aloud; have pairs order seed, sprout, and plant cards, then ask and answer one question using the book.
Read two pages of an ant book aloud, then ask, 'Where do ants live, and which page helped you answer?'
After reading a page about penguins, toss a soft ball; the catcher asks or answers a question about that page.
Read a seed packet aloud, then have children ask what the seeds need and point to the answer before planting.

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