South Dakota ELA K.RL.7

ELAKindergartenReading Literature

The Standard

Explain the relationship between illustrations and the text with prompting and support.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students listen to a story page and look closely at its picture. With a prompt, they point to a detail that shows something they heard in the words.
What Mastery Looks Like: When a page says Mia’s kite flew away, a student points to the kite above the trees. Asked what else the picture shows, they notice Mia reaching up toward it.
Common Misconceptions: Some children name everything in the picture without connecting it to the words. Others say a detail they see, such as a dog in the background, was mentioned in the story.
How to Assess It: Show a sketch of a puppy under a bed and read, “The puppy hid under the bed.” Ask, “What in the picture shows what I read?”

Lesson moves

Read a story page, then have children place a sticky note on the pictured detail that shows something named in the words.
Show a picture-book page and ask, “What does the picture show that the words do not tell us?”
Read three short story sentences and have children choose the matching picture card and name the clue they used.
Read a story page about rain, then show a photo of a puddle near school and ask which story words fit both images.

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