Florida B.E.S.T. ELA.2.C.4.1
The Standard
Participate in research to gather information to answer a question about a single topic using multiple sources.
Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students begin with one focused question about a topic. They find useful facts in at least two sources, then use those facts to give an answer.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students choose details that directly answer the question and record where each detail came from. They combine facts from two or more sources into a clear answer in their own words.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may copy whole sentences instead of taking short notes in their own words. They may use only one source, collect unrelated facts, or treat two pages from one book as separate sources.
How to Assess It
- Give students two short source cards about frogs. Ask, “How do frogs survive winter?” Students write a two-sentence answer using one fact from each card.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Set out two books about one animal; students place sticky-note facts under a shared research question.
After reading two short texts, write: “Which three facts best answer our question, and where did each come from?”
Play Source Detective: teams match fact cards to two labeled source pages, then discard one fact that does not answer the question.
Use a seed packet and a children’s gardening page to decide where the class should plant bean seeds.
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Related Standards
- ELA.5.C.4.1
Conduct research to answer a question, organizing information about the topic and using multiple reliable and valid sources.
- ELA.1.C.4.1
Participate in research to gather information to answer a question about a single topic.
- ELA.4.C.4.1
Conduct research to answer a question, organizing information about the topic, using multiple valid sources.
- ELA.3.C.4.1
Conduct research to answer a question, organizing information about the topic from multiple sources.
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