4.13.G
ELA4th GradeThe student engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of purposes.
The Standard
develop a bibliography
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students record basic information about each source while researching. They organize the entries in one consistent format and include every source they actually used.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students collect the needed details from books, articles, and websites without guessing. They create a complete, consistently formatted source list and arrange entries in alphabetical order.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may list only website links or book titles and leave out authors, dates, or publishers. They may include sources they did not use, omit sources they did use, or mix formats without a clear pattern.
How to Assess It
- Give students one book title page and one printed webpage. Ask them to write a complete source entry for each and place the entries in alphabetical order.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Set out three books and two printed webpages; students rotate, find author, title, publisher or site, and date, then make source cards.
Ask students to explain in writing why a reader needs a source list and what could happen when a source is omitted.
Play Citation Sort: teams arrange mixed source details into complete entries, then alphabetize the finished entries by the first listed element.
Examine the source list in a nonfiction book or museum webpage and identify how it helps readers check the information.
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