CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.8
The Standard
Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
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 information that directly answers a research question, using their own experiences and relevant print or digital sources. They take notes in their own words, use those notes in a finished piece, and list each source.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can separate useful facts from unrelated details and explain ideas without copying source sentences. Their finished work accurately reflects the sources and includes enough information to identify each source.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often copy full sentences, change only a few words, or include facts that do not answer the research question. They may confuse summarizing with adding opinions, or list website links while omitting books and interviews.
How to Assess It
- Display: “Bees carry pollen from flower to flower. This helps many plants make fruits and seeds.” Ask students to explain why bees matter in their own words and add Pollinators by Ana Lee to a source list.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs three printed sources about volcanoes; students highlight facts answering one question, then sort useful and unrelated facts into labeled envelopes.
Students discuss signs that a note is paraphrased rather than copied, then revise one copied sentence and explain each change.
Play Paraphrase Relay: teams read a fact card, turn it over, write the idea from memory, then compare meaning and wording.
Students research a school lunch change, interview a classmate, use one website, and write a recommendation with both sources listed.
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