South Dakota ELA 4.W.8.b

ELA4th GradeWriting

The Standard

4.W.8: Gather and recall relevant information from experiences and print and digital sources such as library databases.

Provide a list of sources.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students keep track of the books and web pages they use while writing. They name each one at the end of their work.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student lists every source they used, and no extras. Each entry gives a title and an author or website name so a reader can find it.
Common Misconceptions: Students may list facts instead of where they found them. They may paste a bare link, leave out a book's author, or include a source they did not use.
How to Assess It: Give students a page from Gail Gibbons's Frogs and a printed National Geographic Kids frog page to use for two facts. Ask them to list both sources with titles and the author or website name.

Lesson moves

Put a book and printed article at each table; students find one fact in each and make source cards from the cover and page header.
Show a frog report that uses a book and an article but lists only the book; ask, 'What source is missing?'
Make fact cards from two books and an article; pairs match each fact to its source, then list the sources they used.
Give students a state park brochure and its website page; have them plan a Saturday visit and list both sources on the plan.

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