Determine and evaluate the effectiveness of digital and print text features and structures, including comparison and contrast, problem and solution, and cause and effect.
Identify various text features used in diverse forms of text.
Compare and contrast the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in multiple texts.
Arizona Academic Standards:
5.RI.7
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RI.5.7
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE5RI7
Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks:
RI.5.7
Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently. Connections to the Standards for Mathematical Practice 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 6. Attend to precision. See the pre-K–5 resource section in this Framework or the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for Mathematics.
Tennessee Academic Standards:
5.RI.IKI.7
Locate an answer to a question or solve a problem, drawing on information from multiple print or digital sources.
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.2.5.G
Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
E05.B-C.3.1.3
Interpret text features (e.g., headings, graphics, charts) and/or make connections between text and the content of text features.
Arkansas Academic Standards:
5.RC.5.RF
Use background knowledge and details, including illustrations, charts, and graphs, to make inferences about what happens in a text.
Arkansas Academic Standards:
5.RC.17.RI
Explain how multimedia elements (e.g., text, audio, images, animation, video, interactive components) support the meaning and tone of a text.
5th Grade Reading - Interpreting Information Lesson
In a passage, an author sometimes includes illustrations to help the reader better understand the text—they help the reader interpret information in the text.
The reader can also learn more about a subject by drawing on information from more than one source.
Some illustrations an author might use include:
Sidebar
A sidebar is a text box that contains extra information about a passage, usually included on the left or right of the text.
Heading
A heading is the title of a section of a text, usually shown in bold.
Hyperlink
A hyperlink is a link to the address of a Web site (e.g.,www.learningfarm.com).
Timeline
A timeline is an illustration that shows the order of events in which something happened in history.