Georgia 7.T.RA.2.a
The Standard
Locate evidence in print and digital sources to support a central idea or question, recording standard bibliographic information, such as author, title, website name, page number, and year of publication. (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 search print and digital texts for details that answer a research question or support a main claim. They record each useful detail with enough source information to find and credit it later.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student selects evidence that directly fits the question, rather than copying any related fact. Each note includes the author, title, site name when relevant, page number when available, and publication year.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often choose facts that mention the topic but do not answer the research question. They may save only a link or confuse the webpage title with the website name. They also omit page numbers or publication years.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short article and ask, "How does sleep affect learning?" Have them copy one supporting sentence and record the author, title, website name, year, and page number if provided.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Set up stations with a book, magazine, and webpage printout, then have students find evidence and complete a source card at each station.
Ask, "Which of these two facts better answers our question, and why?" Students write a two-sentence defense that identifies each source.
Play Source Detail Relay: teams inspect sample title pages and webpages, then race to label author, title, site, page, and year.
Have students investigate a school lunch proposal, gathering one fact from the district website and one from a printed nutrition guide.
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