Virginia SOL K.RI.1.B
The Standard
With prompting and support, identify the main topic and key details of a text
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Key Ideas and Confirming Details
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students listen to or read a short nonfiction text and tell what it is mostly about. With teacher questions or picture cues, they identify facts that explain that subject.
What Mastery Looks Like
- After hearing a short nonfiction text, a student names its overall subject. With a prompt, the student points to or tells two facts that support that subject.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name one interesting fact instead of the overall subject. They may choose a detail from the picture that the text does not explain.
How to Assess It
- Read a short nonfiction page aloud. Ask, “What is this mostly about, and what are two facts you learned about it?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students picture and fact cards, then have them place each fact under the matching topic picture.
Read a short animal text and ask, “What is it mostly about, and which sentence helped you know?”
Play Topic or Detail by reading statements aloud while students hold up a T card or D card.
Examine a school lunch menu, name what it is mostly about, and identify two details such as foods or days.
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Related Standards
- K.RI.3.A
With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic
- 2.RI.1.B
Retell key details of texts that demonstrate an understanding of the main topics of texts.
- 5.RI.1.A
Summarize the main ideas of texts and specific paragraphs within them, including how they are developed through the details.
- 1.RI.1.B
Identify the main idea and supporting details of a text.
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