South Dakota ELA K.RI.5

ELAKindergartenReading Informational Text

The Standard

Identify various text features with prompting and support.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: With a teacher's help, students find titles, headings, captions, and labels in nonfiction books. They point to a feature and say what it helps them find or understand.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given a page about frogs, a student points to the heading and says it names the page topic. With a prompt, the student points to the caption and says it tells about the photo.
Common Misconceptions: Students may call every large word a title. They may point to a photo when asked for its caption, or mistake a label for part of the picture.
How to Assess It: Show a nonfiction page with a heading and a caption. Ask, "Point to the caption. What does it tell you about the picture?" Then ask the student to find the heading.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a nonfiction animal book and sticky notes; have them mark the title, a heading, and a caption.
Read a page about bees and ask, "How does this caption help us understand the photo?"
Play feature hunt with a nonfiction book: name "label" and have children point to one before you turn the page.
Show the class lunch menu; ask children to find Monday's heading and tell how it helps them find lunch.

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