6.12.D
The Standard
identify and gather relevant information from 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 use a research question to decide what information will help answer it. They locate useful details in more than one kind of source and record where each detail came from.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students use several source types, such as books, databases, websites, or interviews. They collect facts that directly address the research question and leave out unrelated details.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may choose information because it is interesting, even when it does not answer the research question. They may treat several websites as varied sources or copy whole passages instead of selecting useful details.
How to Assess It
- Give students four short source cards about how sleep affects middle school students. Ask them to select two relevant sources, record one useful fact from each, and explain each choice.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Set up stations with a book excerpt, database article, website, and interview transcript, then have students collect one relevant fact from each.
Ask students to explain in writing why an interesting fact might still be irrelevant to a specific research question.
Play Relevance Relay, where teams sort fact cards into useful, unrelated, or needs more context for a posted research question.
Investigate cafeteria food waste using lunchroom observations, a custodian interview, and district nutrition information. Break down how each source helps answer the question.
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