The Reading Informational Text Standards ensure that students are exposed to a range of non-fiction reading. A variety of tasks and texts are addressed in these standards. Types of texts include: informational text, persuasive and argumentative pieces, and narrative non-fiction. Reading should be done at increasingly more challenging levels each year.
Please click on the image below to view the Reading Informational Text Map and access the videos that support instruction of these standards.
Click on the overview map below to see how the concepts in Reading Informational Text fit into the larger range of ELA Common Core concepts.
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RI.K.1: Kindergarten Students Ask Questions
RI.K.1: Kindergarten Students Answering Questions
RI.K.2: Main Idea and Details: Two-Column Notes
RI.K.3: Connections within a Text
RI.K.4: Asking and Answering Questions About Unknown Vocabulary
RI.K.5: The Cover and the Title Page
RI.K.6: The Role of the Author and Illustrator in Informational Text
RI.K.7: The Illustrations and the Text
RI.K.7: The Illustrations and the Text 2
RI.K.8: Finding Text Evidence
RI.K.9: Similarities and Differences
RI.K.10: Text Complexity Part 1
RI.K.10: Text Complexity Part 2
RI.K.10: Kindergarten and Text Complexity