CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.7
The Standard
Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6—12
What This Standard Means
Students need to pull information from different kinds of sources, such as a speech, map, chart, photo, timeline, article, or data table. They must compare what each source says, notice what each one adds or leaves out, and use the combined evidence to answer a history or social studies question.
Mastery looks like a clear answer that uses the best evidence from several formats, not just the easiest text source. Students often get stuck reading graphs, treating images as decoration, or listing facts without connecting them. They also may miss bias, source date, or audience.
Ways to Teach It
- Give students a political cartoon, census table, and textbook excerpt, then have them build one claim about urbanization using all three.
- Ask students to write: Which source changed your thinking most, and what did it show that the others did not?
- Use an exit ticket with one graph and one paragraph, asking students to name one agreement and one tension between them.
- Have students compare a current news article, map, and data chart about migration to explain one cause and one effect.
Before This Standard
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