CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8
The Standard
Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing
What This Standard Means
Students need to find useful information from more than one source, including books, articles, websites, videos, or databases. They need to judge whether a source can be trusted, check facts across sources, take notes in their own words, and keep track of where ideas came from.
Mastery looks like a student using several reliable sources to support a claim or answer a question, blending evidence smoothly, and giving credit clearly. Students often get stuck choosing sources, copying sentences instead of paraphrasing, trusting the first search result, or dropping quotes into writing without explaining them.
Ways to Teach It
- Give pairs three short sources on the same topic and have them sort facts into useful, repeated, questionable, and off-topic piles.
- Ask students to write which source they trust most and explain their choice using author, date, evidence, and purpose.
- Collect one note card with a paraphrased fact, the source title, and one reason the source seems reliable.
- Show two product reviews and a news article, then have students decide which source they would use before buying something.
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