First Grade ELA Domain: Reading Informational Text
In this domain, first-graders will take what they’ve learned in the Reading Literature domain and apply those skills to informational texts. Using eSpark Learning’s standards-aligned activities, teachers can create an engaging classroom and streamline students’ learning. Through informative videos, games, and singalongs, first-graders will continue to ask questions about stories, find the meaning of unfamiliar words, establish connections, determine the purpose of a text, and compare and contrast similar texts. Here’s a closer look at what students can expect to learn in each standard throughout the First Grade ELA Reading Informational Text domain:
Answer Questions About Stories
Students will continue practicing asking and answering questions about specific details in texts.
Find the Main Idea
First graders will listen to different texts, identifying main topics along the way.
Make Connections
In this domain, students will identify and describe connections in a text, including people, places, ideas, and events.
Find Meaning of Words
First graders will learn to understand unfamiliar words and phrases by asking and answering questions about texts.
Use Images to Understand a Text
Students will enhance their visual learning skills by using pictures and illustrations to understand unfamiliar words and phrases.
Use Images To Explain a Text
Next, first-grader students will use pictures and illustrations to explain what’s happening in any given text, including key details and ideas.
Identify Author's Purpose
Students will start to learn and identify the meaning and purpose behind authors’ texts.
Compare and Contrast Texts
With help and support, first-graders will compare and contrast texts that have similar topics.
Reading Informational Text is one of four domains included in the First Grade ELA standards. Throughout each standard, students can expect to learn concepts like:
With the support of eSpark Learning, students can enhance their learning at the rate of 1.5 times faster than their peers. Every activity — from instructional videos, learning songs, games, and read-a-longs — is carefully aligned to each standard, ensuring first-graders stay on track to meet their goals established by the Common Core.
eSpark Learning also helps teachers create a more engaging curriculum and provide individualized learning where necessary. With progress monitoring for each activity, teachers can gain a better understanding of each student and their comprehension of lessons and standards.
Ready to create some free fun in the classroom? Here’s a closer look at some of the standards-aligned activities eSpark Learning provides within the Reading Informational Text domain for first-graders:
Answer Questions About Stories
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
In one of several standards-aligned activities, first-graders can tap into a read-a-long to learn about the sea while discovering new and unfamiliar words (and creatures!).
Find the Main Idea
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
The Floor is Lava! In this engaging activity, students can choose to have an instructional story read to them or read it by themselves. Afterward, teachers can quiz them on what they learned.
Make Connections
Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Find Meaning of Words
Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
In this domain, first-graders can listen and learn all about Arctic Foxes, using photos to better understand how they survive harsh winters.
Use Images to Understand a Text
Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.
Going On A Cloud Hunt. In this engaging activity, students can choose to have an instructional story read to them or read it by themselves. Afterward, teachers can quiz them on what they learned.
Use Images To Explain a Text
Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
In a fun and catchy sing-a-long, students will watch and learn all about the five things plants need to live.
Identify Author's Purpose
Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
In one of several practice texts, students can read about different types of pets and discuss what makes a good pet and why.
Compare and Contrast Texts
Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
In this final standard, first-graders can read several stories — like Who Lives at the Denver Zoo? — to compare and contrast their new learnings.
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