South Dakota ELA 5.RI.9

ELA5th GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

Integrate information from several 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 several texts on one topic and find details that answer a shared question. They connect those details in a written answer, oral explanation, or labeled diagram.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can use facts from three texts to explain how bees help fruit grow. They connect pollen, seeds, and fruit instead of summarizing each text separately.
Common Misconceptions: Students may write a separate summary of each text without connecting the ideas. They may use only the easiest text or count the same fact repeated in two texts as two different facts.
How to Assess It: On an exit ticket, print three source cards: 'Bees carry pollen between flowers,' 'Pollinated flowers can make seeds,' and 'Many fruits grow around seeds.' Ask, 'How do bees help fruit grow? Use all three cards.'

Lesson moves

Give groups three short texts about rain gardens; have them arrange fact strips from each text into a cause-and-effect chain on poster paper.
After reading three short texts about bats, ask, 'How do bats help farms? Which facts from different texts belong in one answer?'
Play source match with three texts on erosion: students pair related fact cards from different texts and write one combined claim.
Read a park sign, a trail brochure, and a local news report about litter; write a note suggesting one fix using all three sources.

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