South Dakota ELA K.RI.10.b

ELAKindergartenReading Informational Text

The Standard

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

Read and proficiently comprehend grade-appropriate text.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Children read short nonfiction texts at kindergarten level and tell what they learned. They name the topic and answer simple questions using the words and pictures.
What Mastery Looks Like: After reading a short book about turtles, a child says it is about turtles and names a fact, such as turtles have shells. They point to the part of the page that supports their answer.
Common Misconceptions: Some children guess a fact from a picture without checking the words. Others tell a related story from their own life instead of saying what the text taught them.
How to Assess It: Show students the sentences, “A frog can jump. A frog can swim.” Ask, “What can a frog do? Point to the words that tell you.”

Lesson moves

Give pairs a short book about frogs and picture cards showing jumping and swimming; have them match each card to a page and point to the matching words.
After reading a page about rain, ask, “What did you learn about rain? Show us where you found that fact.”
Play fact or not: read three claims about a nonfiction page, and have children hold up yes or no cards.
Read a simple plant care card with “Give water” and “Put in sun,” then have children use it to care for a class plant.

Free download

A ready-to-print activity worksheet aligned to K.RI.10.b, with an answer key for the teacher on its own page. No account needed.

PDF, US Letter, prints cleanly in black and white.

Keep exploring

Grade, subject, topic, and the complete standard are prefilled. Create one free, no account needed.