CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.7
The Standard
Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (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 Informational Text
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students gather information from text, charts, images, audio, or video to answer one question or solve one problem. They compare evidence across sources and decide which information is relevant, reliable, and convincing.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students answer a focused question using relevant evidence from written, visual, and numerical sources. They explain how the sources support, extend, or contradict one another and judge each source’s usefulness and credibility.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may summarize each source separately without connecting them. They may trust a graph or video without checking its scale, source, date, or evidence, or ignore conflicts between sources.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short article and graph about teen sleep. Ask: “What conclusion do both sources support, and which source provides stronger evidence? Cite one detail from each.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs an article, graph, and infographic, then have them place evidence cards on a source comparison mat.
Ask students to write: “Which source best answers the question, and what evidence makes it more useful than the others?”
Run a source match game where teams pair claims with supporting details from a chart, podcast transcript, and news report.
Have students compare product reviews, price charts, and specifications to recommend a laptop for a student with a fixed budget.
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