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
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students gather evidence from written sources, maps, charts, images, audio, or video. They compare what each source adds, judge reliability, and use the combined evidence to answer a historical question.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student selects relevant details from several formats and explains how the pieces connect. The student notices conflicts, weighs source quality, and gives a supported answer rather than listing facts.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat every source as equally reliable or use a striking image without checking its context. They may summarize sources separately instead of combining evidence, or ignore numbers that complicate a written claim.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short paragraph, a data table, and a political cartoon about one policy. Ask which conclusion all three support and require evidence from each source.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Place a map, census table, newspaper excerpt, and photograph at stations; students collect evidence to explain one cause of urban growth.
Ask students to write: Which source most changes your answer, and why is it more useful or reliable than the others?
Run an evidence match game where teams pair claims with mixed source cards and reject irrelevant or weak evidence.
Compare a news article, government chart, and interview clip about unemployment, then draft a recommendation for a local job program.
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