CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.3

ELA7th GradeKey Ideas and Details

The Standard

Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects 6—12

What This Standard Means

Students need to read a lab, measurement task, or technical procedure closely and do the steps in the right order. They must notice quantities, tools, safety notes, timing, units, diagrams, and warning words like before, after, record, and repeat.

Mastery looks like a student completing the task without skipping steps or guessing from memory. They can explain which step they are on and use the text to fix mistakes. Students often get stuck by skimming, mixing up order, ignoring units, or treating diagrams as extra instead of part of the directions.

Ways to Teach It

Give pairs a simple paper airplane procedure with exact measurements, then compare flight results when one step is skipped or changed.
Ask students to annotate a lab procedure and write, "The step most likely to cause mistakes is ___ because ___."
Hand students a scrambled six-step measurement task and have them number the steps, underline tools, and circle units in three minutes.
Bring in a recipe, bike tire directions, or game setup guide, then have students identify steps, warnings, tools, and measurements.

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