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Common Core ELA1st GradeReading: Informational

RI.1.10: Read Grade 1 Nonfiction with Support

Also written as CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.10 · Cluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.

All 41 1st Grade ELA Standards

The Official Wording

With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.

Common Core State Standards, Grade 1, Reading: Informational Text · Read it at the source · Checked October 14, 2026

What RI.1.10 Means in Plain English

First graders read nonfiction written for their grade themselves, with the teacher stepping in when a word or idea stalls them. A child reading about a cement mixer might stop at concrete, get a prompt to sound it out and reread, then explain why the drum keeps turning.

In kindergarten (RI.K.10) children joined in when the class read together. Now the reading is their own, at a 1st-grade level, with support fading over the year. By the end of 2nd grade (RI.2.10) they read science, history and how-to texts with help only at the hardest level.

RI.1.10 I Can Statements

  • I can read a nonfiction book made for 1st grade.
  • I can reread when something does not make sense.
  • I can tell what I learned after I read.

RI.1.10 Worked Example

A five-line text about a cement mixer that a 1st grader reads aloud, the teacher’s question afterward, and two answers: one before support and one after.

Read the Story
A cement mixer is a big truck with a drum on its back.Inside the drum, cement, sand, rocks and water mix together. They make concrete.The drum turns and turns as the truck drives to the job.If the drum stopped, the concrete could get hard inside it!At the job, the wet concrete slides down a chute. Workers use it to make a new sidewalk.
A short passage written for this page.
Question: Why does the drum keep turning?
Not Yet“So it looks cool.”The child read the first lines well, stalled on concrete, skipped the sentence that held the answer and guessed. The guess shows a gap in the reading, not in the child’s thinking.
Meets the Standard“So the concrete doesn’t get hard. It says if the drum stopped, the concrete could get hard inside.”After the teacher said “Go back and reread that part,” the child worked out concrete, reread the sentence and answered from it. That is the prompting and support the standard means.
Question Stems to Use
Look at the first letters. What sound do they make?Does that make sense? Go back and reread.What do you think this part will tell us?Which sentence tells you why?Tell me one thing you learned.

Common Mistakes with RI.1.10

Guessing instead of rereading

“So it looks cool,” after skipping the line the child could not read

Try this: Before accepting an answer, prompt “Go back and reread that part,” then wait while the child works through the hard word.

Giving the word away too fast

The teacher says “concrete” the moment the child pauses

Try this: Count to five silently, then prompt one strategy, like covering part of the word, before ever saying it for the child.

Reading every word but missing the meaning

A smooth, fast read, then a blank face at “What did you learn?”

Try this: Set one question before reading, like “Find out why the drum turns,” so the child reads for an answer, not speed.

Where RI.1.10 Fits

Comes BeforeRI.K.10Join in group reading of nonfiction with purpose and understanding.
AlongsideRF.1.4Read grade-level text with accuracy and understanding, rereading to self-correct.RL.1.10Read stories and poems at a 1st-grade level, with prompting and support.
Comes NextRI.2.10By year’s end, read science, history and technical texts for grades 2 and 3, with help at the hardest end.

Practice RI.1.10

Quick Check

  1. What mixes together inside the drum?
  2. Why does the drum keep turning?
  3. What do the workers make with the concrete?

RI.1.10: Other Names

RI.1.10CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.10

Common Core State Standards © Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved. Official wording from the Common Core State Standards PDFs at corestandards.org, last checked October 14, 2026. The explanation, I can statements, example, mistakes and practice on this page are EMStudio’s own, written beside the official wording. They are not part of the standard.