By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

The general idea between this standard and its Reading: Literature counterpart is the same; check out our blurb on that standard to see what we think about this one. So there is some mumbo-jumbo about learning about plays in there, but don't pay attention to those words.