CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.7
The Standard
Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Writing Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students choose a focused topic or question, gather useful facts from age-appropriate sources, and take simple notes. They organize what they learned and share it through a short written product or presentation.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students ask a focused question and find facts that help answer it. They take brief notes, group related information, and present a clear answer in their own words.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may choose a topic that is too broad, such as “animals,” instead of asking a focused question. They may copy whole sentences, collect unrelated facts, or treat personal opinions as evidence.
How to Assess It
- Give students two short sources about honeybees. Ask them to write one research question, record three relevant facts in their own words, and answer the question.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Set up three book and article stations about frogs, then have students collect facts under habitat, diet, and life cycle headings.
Ask students to write, “Which fact best answers our research question, and why?” after reading two short sources.
Give teams fact cards to sort into relevant, unrelated, and opinion piles for a shared research question.
Have students research one playground improvement, then write a fact-based recommendation to the principal.
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