Georgia 12.T.RA.2.b
The Standard
Analyze information from a variety of sources by identifying misconceptions, conflicting information or perspectives, and/or author bias and verifying the validity, relevancy, and accuracy of the information being considered. (I)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Research & Analysis
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare claims across several sources and notice contradictions, unsupported ideas, and slanted language. They check authorship, evidence, dates, context, and outside confirmation before deciding what information to use.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can annotate a source set to mark unsupported claims, conflicting accounts, loaded language, and missing context. They can verify a claim through corroboration and explain whether each source is accurate, relevant, and usable.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume a polished website is reliable or that bias makes a source useless. They may also treat disagreement as proof that one source is false without checking evidence, dates, or context.
How to Assess It
- Give students three short sources about one claim. Ask them to identify one conflict, choose the most trustworthy source, and justify the choice with two specific details.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups printed source excerpts and evidence cards, then have them match each claim to supporting, contradicting, or missing evidence.
Ask students to write: When does an author's perspective strengthen a source, and when does it weaken the source's credibility?
Run a credibility bracket where pairs compare two sources, select the stronger one, and defend each choice using dates, evidence, and authorship.
Have students fact-check a viral social media claim using a news report, an expert source, and original data.
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