South Dakota ELA 5.W.7
The Standard
Conduct short research projects that use multiple sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students investigate a question using more than one source. They take notes on different parts of the topic, then write a short report that brings the facts together.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student finds facts about at least two parts of a topic in two or more sources. Their report groups related facts and shows where the information came from.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may copy whole sentences instead of taking notes in their own words. They may find several facts about one part of the topic but leave other parts unanswered.
How to Assess It
- Give students a bee fact sheet and a garden book excerpt. Ask them to explain how bees help a garden and what a garden gives bees, using one fact from each source.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a bee fact sheet, a garden book excerpt, and sticky notes; have them sort facts under pollination, food, and shelter.
Ask, 'How do gardens help bees, and how do bees help gardens?' Have students write a paragraph using facts from two sources.
Play source match: give students six bee fact cards and two labeled excerpts, then have them match each fact to its source.
Visit the school flower bed; have students list two questions about bees, then check a field guide and a local extension page for answers.
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