CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.7
The Standard
Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text.
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 read a history or social studies text alongside data, charts, maps, timelines, or technical visuals. They should use both sources together, not treat the visual as decoration. They need to explain how the numbers or visual details support, complicate, or challenge the written account.
Mastery looks like a student citing a claim from the text and pairing it with specific evidence from a graph, table, or map. Students often get stuck by summarizing the chart alone, ignoring units and labels, or forcing the data to match the author’s point without checking it closely.
Ways to Teach It
- Give students a short article on migration and a census chart, then have them annotate where the data supports or challenges the article.
- Ask students to write: What does the chart show that the author mentions, leaves out, or explains differently?
- Use an exit ticket with one paragraph and one graph, asking for one connected claim using evidence from both.
- Show a news article with an unemployment graph, and discuss how readers need both the story and the data to judge the claim.
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What This Unlocks
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