South Dakota ELA 4.RI.9

ELA4th GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write, speak, or demonstrate knowledge about the subject.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read two texts about the same topic and choose useful facts from each. They use those facts together to explain the topic in writing, speech, or a model.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can answer a question using a relevant fact from each text. They can explain how the facts fit together and say which text provided each fact.
Common Misconceptions: Students may summarize each text separately without connecting the facts. They may copy a sentence from one text and overlook what the other text adds.
How to Assess It: Give students two short passages, one about how beavers build dams and one about how dams affect streams. Ask, “How do beaver dams change streams? Use one fact from each passage.”

Lesson moves

Give pairs two beaver dam articles and colored sticky notes; have them sort facts from each onto a poster explaining dam effects.
Ask students, “How do beaver dams affect streams and wildlife?” Have them write an answer with one fact from each article.
Play fact match: groups pair cards from the two articles that support one claim about beaver dams.
Hand out two local forecasts for the next school day; have students recommend a recess plan using one detail from each.

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