South Dakota ELA K.RI.7

ELAKindergartenReading Informational Text

The Standard

Describe the relationship between visual representations and the text with prompting and support.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Listen to a short nonfiction page read aloud. Point to a detail in the picture and tell how it helps explain the words, with teacher questions if needed.
What Mastery Looks Like: When a page says frogs have webbed feet, a student points to the webbing in the photo. They explain that the photo shows what webbed feet look like.
Common Misconceptions: Students may name things in the picture without connecting them to the words. They may also guess from the picture without listening to what the words say.
How to Assess It: Show a clear photo of a frog’s feet and read, “Frogs have webbed feet.” Ask, “Point to the webbing. How does the photo help you understand the sentence?”

Lesson moves

Read pairs a sentence about duck feet, then give them a duck-feet photo to circle the part the words describe.
Read a page about a seed growing roots, show its drawing, and ask which part shows what the words describe.
Play picture detective: read “A turtle has a hard shell,” and have children point to the shell in a turtle photo.
Show a seed packet labeled “red tomatoes” and ask how the packet photo helps children understand the label.

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