Georgia 8.T.RA.1

8.T.RA.1 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.

• 8.T.RA.1.a

  Generate questions to guide research and make connections between related topics of interest, formulating questions to investigate complex topics and ideas. (I)

• 8.T.RA.1.b

  Conduct research by locating, gathering, curating, and integrating information from credible sources (including print, digital, and personal communication) abou...

• 8.T.RA.1.c

  Draw from accumulated knowledge and research to analyze texts, supporting, challenging, or extending ideas and information. (C)

01

What Students Need to Do

Students turn a complex topic into focused questions that guide an investigation. They find credible sources, select relevant evidence, and use it to develop and support an analysis.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students create focused, open-ended questions that lead to sustained research. They choose credible, relevant sources, gather useful evidence, and explain how that evidence supports their conclusions.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may write questions that are too broad, too narrow, or answerable with one fact. They may treat the first search result as reliable or confuse popularity with credibility. They may collect quotations without explaining how the evidence supports their analysis.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a topic and three short source descriptions. Ask them to write one focused research question, select the most credible source, and explain how its evidence could support an analysis.

1. 01

   Give pairs printed source cards to sort by credibility, then require them to defend each placement using author, evidence, date, and publisher.

2. 02

   Ask students to revise the question “Is social media bad?” into three focused questions that require evidence and allow more than one answer.

3. 03

   Run a source credibility challenge where teams score sample websites for author expertise, evidence, publication date, purpose, and outside confirmation.

4. 04

   Have students investigate a proposed school policy, such as later start times, and prepare an evidence-based recommendation for the principal.

• 12.T.RA.1

  The 12th Grade version of this standard.

• 6.T.RA.1

  The 6th Grade version of this standard.

• 7.T.RA.1

  The 7th Grade version of this standard.

• 11.T.RA.1

  The 11th Grade version of this standard.