South Dakota ELA 9-10.W.8.c

ELAGrades 9–10Writing

The Standard

Fluently integrate information (e.g. paraphrases, summaries, direct quotations, elaborations, and attributions).

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students bring information from sources into their own writing through paraphrases, summaries, and quotations. They name the source and explain how the information supports their point.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student introduces a source before using its words or ideas. They choose a brief quote when exact wording matters, summarize when they need the main point, and explain the connection to their claim.
Common Misconceptions: Students may change a few words from a source and call it a paraphrase. They may confuse a summary with a paraphrase or drop in a quote without naming the source or explaining it.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Give students the claim “Schools should plant gardens” and this newsletter line: “Garden lessons help students learn where food comes from.” Ask for two sentences that name the newsletter, use the detail, and explain how it supports the claim.

Lesson moves

Give pairs claim, source, and explanation sentence strips; have them arrange the strips, then rewrite them as one smooth paragraph.
Ask students why a quotation needs an explanation, then have them revise a paragraph that ends with an unexplained quote.
Play Source Swap: students draw a three-sentence source card and write an attributed paraphrase, a summary, and an introduced quotation.
Use a school lunch menu and a food label; students write a lunch recommendation that names both sources and explains one useful detail.

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