Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.5.9

ELA5th GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

Integrate information from several 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 several texts about one topic and find details that answer a shared question. They put those details together in one explanation and show which text supplied each detail.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can use details from three texts to explain how bees help apple trees grow fruit. They connect the details instead of writing three separate summaries.
Common Misconceptions: Students may list one fact from each text without explaining how the facts connect. They may also say all three texts make the same claim when each text adds something different.
How to Assess It: Give students three mini-texts: A, 'Bees carry pollen between flowers'; B, 'Apple blossoms need pollen to form apples'; C, 'Orchard owners plant flowers to attract bees.' Ask, 'How could planting flowers help an apple orchard? Use a detail from each text.'

Lesson moves

Give pairs three short texts about bees and fruit, then have them arrange labeled fact strips into a cause-and-effect chain.
Ask, 'What does each text add to our explanation of how apples grow?' Have students write one connected paragraph.
Play source match: teams pair claims about apple growing with fact cards from three labeled texts, then explain their matches.
Read an orchard brochure, a bee fact sheet, and a flower plant tag; write a planting suggestion for a local apple grower.

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