South Dakota ELA K.RI.10.a

ELAKindergartenReading Informational Text

The Standard

K.RI.10: By the end of the year read and comprehend a variety of informational text.

Demonstrate listening comprehension of complex texts.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students listen to an informational text read aloud, even when it has unfamiliar words or ideas. They explain what they learned and answer questions using details they heard.
What Mastery Looks Like: After hearing a book about bees and flowers, a student explains that pollen sticks to a bee and moves to another flower. They recall a detail from the book that supports their answer.
Common Misconceptions: Some students guess from the pictures instead of listening to the words. Others remember that bees visit flowers but miss how pollen moves between them.
How to Assess It: Read aloud: "A bee visits a blossom to drink nectar. Pollen clings to its fuzzy body. At the next blossom, some pollen rubs off." Ask, "How does pollen get from one blossom to another?"

Lesson moves

After a read-aloud about pollination, have pairs use cotton balls to carry yellow chalk dust between two paper flowers.
Pause after a page about pollen and ask, "Why does it stick to the bee, and where might it go next?"
After the read-aloud, say four claims about bees; students hold up YES or NO cards and name a detail they heard.
Show an apple and a photo of an apple blossom; ask how a bee could help that blossom become fruit.

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