South Dakota ELA K.RI.9

ELAKindergartenReading Informational Text

The Standard

Compare and contrast two or more texts on the same topic with prompting and support.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students listen to or read two short nonfiction texts on the same topic. With questions and picture support, they name a fact the texts share and a fact found in only one.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student names one shared fact and one fact found in only one text. They point to a sentence or picture that supports each answer.
Common Misconceptions: Children may think two texts say the same things just because both are about frogs. They may compare cover colors instead of facts, or think a detail in only one text means the texts disagree.
How to Assess It: Read aloud: "Frogs live by ponds. Frogs eat bugs." Then read: "Frogs live by ponds. Frogs lay eggs in water." Ask, "What do both say? What does only one say?"

Lesson moves

Read two frog cards, both mentioning ponds, one bugs and one eggs; sort pond, bug, and egg drawings on a two-circle mat.
Ask, "Why does the pond drawing go in the middle of our chart, while bugs go on one side?"
Play Fact Match: say "pond," "bugs," or "eggs," and have children point to both frog cards or just one.
Show two sample lunch menus, both listing apples, one listing rice and one listing noodles; ask which foods appear on both or just one.

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