Kentucky Reading and Writing C.4.6
The Standard
Summarize relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from various print and digital sources; take notes, categorize information and provide a list of sources.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use an experience, books, or websites to find information that answers a question. They take brief notes, group related facts, summarize what they learned, and list their sources.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student picks facts that answer the question and sorts notes under clear headings. Their summary gives the main points in their own words, and their source list names each book or web page used.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may copy whole sentences instead of taking brief notes. They may include interesting facts that do not answer the question. Some list a website address without naming the page.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short book excerpt and a printed website page about bees, both labeled with titles. Ask: "How do bees survive? Write one useful note from each source under Food or Shelter, summarize your findings in two sentences, and list both source titles."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two short articles about butterflies; have them highlight facts about food and shelter, then sort the facts into labeled piles.
Ask, "Which details from our class garden visit explain how plants grow?" Have students write two notes and explain one choice to a partner.
Play a fact sort: read garden facts aloud, and have teams place each fact card under Soil, Water, or Not Relevant.
Use the cafeteria menu and school nutrition webpage to note lunch choices by food group, then list both sources.
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