6.12.C

ELA6th GradeThe student engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of purposes.

The Standard

refine the major research question, if necessary, guided by the answers to a secondary set of questions

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students review what they learned from several supporting questions. They decide whether the main research question still fits, then revise it to match the evidence and research focus.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students use answers from supporting questions to decide whether the main question needs to change. They revise it to be clearer, narrower, or better aligned with the available evidence.
Common Misconceptions: Students may treat the first question as fixed, even when sources point elsewhere. They may also replace it with a broader question or confuse supporting questions with the main question.
How to Assess It: Give students a main question, three supporting questions, and brief findings. Ask them to rewrite the main question and explain which finding prompted the change.

Lesson moves

Give groups question cards and evidence slips, then have them revise the main question after sorting the evidence by supporting question.
Ask students to explain in writing, Which finding changed your thinking, and how should the main question change?
Play Question Clinic, where teams earn points by improving research questions that are too broad, narrow, vague, or unsupported.
Use school lunch survey results to revise a main question about which menu changes students would support.

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