Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.4.9

ELA4th GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

Integrate information from two or more texts on the same theme or topic.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read two texts about the same topic. They choose useful facts from each and connect them to explain an idea.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can explain why native flowers help bees and plants. They use a relevant detail from each text and show how the details fit together.
Common Misconceptions: Students may retell one text and ignore the other. They may list a fact from each text without explaining the connection.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Give students two slips, A: 'Bees carry pollen between flowers, helping plants make seeds'; B: 'Native flowers give bees nectar, and planting several kinds keeps food available longer.' Ask, 'How can planting native flowers help both bees and plants? Use a detail from each slip.'

Lesson moves

Give pairs two bee articles and sticky notes; have them group facts by what bees need and what plants gain, then write a shared conclusion.
Ask partners how bees and flowers help each other, using one detail from each of two bee articles.
Play Evidence Match with fact cards from two bee articles; students pair cards that support the same claim.
Read a seed packet and a pollinator garden flyer, then recommend flowers for a school garden using a detail from each.

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