4.7.B
The Standard
write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing and contrasting ideas across a variety of sources
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 write about ideas presented in texts, audio, images, or videos. They explain how ideas are alike and different, using details from each source.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students identify a meaningful similarity and difference between ideas in two or more sources. They support each comparison with accurate details and explain how the details connect.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may summarize each source separately without making a direct comparison. They may compare formats instead of ideas, or use evidence from only one source.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short article and a one-minute video about the same animal. Ask them to write one shared idea, one difference, and supporting details.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs evidence cards from two sources to sort under Shared Idea, Source A Only, or Source B Only.
Ask students to write: How do the sources explain the problem differently, and which details show that difference?
Play Comparison Relay, where teams match claim cards with evidence cards from two short passages.
Compare a weather forecast, radar map, and news report to explain what each says about an approaching storm.
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Related Standards
- 8.6.B
write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing sources within and across genres;
- 7.6.B
write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing sources within and across genres
- 5.7.B
The 5th Grade version of this standard.
- 6.6.B
write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing sources within and across genres;
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