South Dakota ELA K.RL.5

ELAKindergartenReading Literature

The Standard

Explain differences between fiction and informational texts with prompting and support.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025) · Craft and Structure

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Children tell whether a book tells a made-up story or teaches facts about the world. With a teacher's questions and pictures to look at, they point to a detail that helped them decide.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given a pig story and a pig fact page, a child identifies which one is fiction and which one teaches about real pigs. They explain their choice by pointing to a talking pig or a fact about pigs' snouts.
Common Misconceptions: Children may call every book with drawings fiction, even when the drawings show facts. They may also think a story is informational because it includes a real animal.
How to Assess It: Show two pages: one says, 'The pig said, “I will build a house!”' and the other says, 'Pigs use their snouts to smell.' Ask, 'Which page teaches a fact about real pigs? How can you tell?'

Lesson moves

Give pairs a page from The Three Little Pigs and a pig fact sheet with a photo; have them sort the pages onto story and fact mats.
Read a pig story page and a pig fact page, then ask, 'Can real pigs talk? Which page helps us learn about pigs?'
Play Story or Fact: read cards saying 'A pig talks' and 'Pigs have snouts'; children hold up a story or fact card.
Show a pig storybook and a pig fact book; ask which one to choose at the library to find out what pigs eat.

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