CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.8
The Standard
With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Writing Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use memories, pictures, read-alouds, or short texts supplied by the teacher to find information that answers a question. With support, they share the answer through a drawing, labels, or a sentence.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a clear question and simple sources, a student selects a relevant detail and gives an accurate answer. The student can say whether the answer came from a source or personal experience.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may share an interesting detail that does not answer the question. They may guess from a picture, copy too much text, or confuse a memory with source information.
How to Assess It
- Show a penguin picture with three simple facts and ask, “What keeps a penguin warm?” Have students draw or write an answer and circle the supporting fact.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs picture cards about frogs, then have them sort details that answer, “How do frogs move?”
Ask, “What helps you get ready for school?” Students draw one experience and write a sentence that answers the question.
Play Detail Detective: read a short page aloud, then students hold up the picture card that answers your question.
Use a class lunch menu and ask, “What can we eat Tuesday?” Students point to evidence and write the answer.
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