NY Next Generation ELA 9-10SL1c
The Standard
Pose and respond to questions that relate the discussion to broader themes or ideas; actively incorporate others into the discussion; and clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions.
New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students pose and answer questions that connect a discussion to broader themes or ideas. They invite others in and clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions constructively.
What Mastery Looks Like
- The student asks a question that broadens analysis and responds with evidence and reasoning. The student includes quieter peers and tests claims without dismissing speakers.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may ask broad questions unrelated to the current discussion. They may treat challenge as contradiction or clarification as simple repetition.
How to Assess It
- During a seminar, require each student to ask one broader-theme question, invite one peer, and clarify, verify, or challenge one claim with evidence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Use question stems for broadening, inviting, clarifying, verifying, and challenging during a live discussion.
Ask students how a challenge can strengthen an exchange without becoming personal.
Play Question Function Sort with sample seminar moves.
Hold a community-issue roundtable where students connect local claims to broader themes.
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