CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.9
The Standard
Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects 6—12
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students gather information about one topic from a written text and from an experiment, simulation, video, or multimedia source. They identify what matches, what differs, and what appears in only one source.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can create an accurate comparison that shows shared, different, and unique information. They support each comparison with a specific detail from the text and the other source.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may summarize each source separately without comparing the information. They may treat different wording as a contradiction or discuss format instead of ideas, evidence, and details.
How to Assess It
- After students read a short paragraph and watch a two-minute video about erosion, ask them to list one shared detail, one unique detail, and one difference.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Read about paper helicopter flight, run a paper helicopter test, then chart which details came from the text, experiment, or both.
After reading and viewing an explanation of eclipses, write: What agrees, what differs, and what does only one source show?
Play Source Sort with fact cards from a tornado article and video, placing each under both, text only, or video only.
Compare medicine directions with a pharmacist demonstration video, then explain which source better shows dosage, timing, and technique.
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