CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.3
The Standard
Identify key steps in a text's description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).
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 track a process in a history or social studies text and name the main steps in order. They should notice signal words, causes, decisions, and who does what at each stage.
Mastery looks like a clear step list or flowchart that matches the text, not prior knowledge or guesses. Students often miss steps that are implied, confuse examples with steps, or copy every detail instead of choosing the parts that move the process forward.
Ways to Teach It
- Give students a short text on how a bill becomes law and have them build a numbered flowchart with arrows and actor labels.
- Ask students to write: Which step in this process has the most power to change the outcome, and why?
- Hand students six mixed-up steps from a text and have them reorder them, then underline the sentence that proves each placement.
- Connect to school rules by mapping how a student council proposal could become a new cafeteria policy.
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