CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.2
The Standard
Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Speaking and Listening Standards
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students gather meaning from charts, maps, images, audio, video, and numerical data. They explain how information from each format adds to a shared topic, text, or issue.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students accurately identify key information from a visual, audio, or quantitative source. They cite specific details and explain how those details clarify, support, or extend the topic.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat charts, images, or audio as decoration instead of sources of information. They may repeat details without explaining their connection, or miss scales, labels, captions, and tone.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short paragraph and related bar graph. Ask, “What does the graph add to the paragraph? Use two details from the graph.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a short article, map, and data chart; have them annotate each source and add notes showing what it contributes.
Show a one-minute news clip and ask, “What do the images or sounds add that the spoken words do not?”
Set up matching cards with claims, charts, captions, and audio summaries; students earn points by defending each match.
Compare a weather alert, radar map, and radio report; students decide what action to take and explain each source’s contribution.
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