Georgia 1.T.RA.2.b

ELA1st GradeCurating Sources & Evidence

The Standard

Explore various sources of information, including print, digital, and personal communication. (I)

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Research & Analysis

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students use books, digital media, and conversations to answer a focused question. They select useful details and connect information found in more than one place.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can gather relevant details from a book, a digital source, and a conversation. The student can tell how two details connect to the same question.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think only books count as sources, or that every source gives the same information. They may share an opinion from a person as if it were a checked fact.
How to Assess It: Ask, “What do butterflies eat?” Provide a book page, a child-safe webpage, and a short adult response, then have students name one useful fact from each.

Lesson moves

Set up three stations with a nonfiction book, a short video, and an adult interview card about animal homes.
Ask students, “Which source best answered our question, and what did you learn from it?”
Play Source Match by having students pair question cards with book, website, video, or interview cards.
Research tomorrow’s weather using a forecast, a weather book, and a conversation with a school staff member.

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