7.12.F

ELA7th Grade

The Standard

synthesize information from a variety of sources

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students combine relevant facts and ideas from several texts, images, videos, or other sources. They explain how the sources work together to support a new understanding or conclusion.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students identify ideas that agree, differ, or add useful details. They combine those ideas into a clear conclusion and support it with accurate evidence from multiple sources.
Common Misconceptions: Students may summarize each source separately instead of connecting ideas across them. They may treat repeated claims as proven facts, ignore contradictions, or copy wording without adding their own conclusion.
How to Assess It: Give students two short sources on homework. Ask them to write three sentences that connect both sources and state one supported conclusion.

Lesson moves

Give pairs three source cards about school start times, then have them group matching evidence and build one shared conclusion.
Ask students to write: How did the second source change, confirm, or complicate your understanding of the first source?
Play Source Puzzle by having teams match claims with evidence from three texts, then explain how the pieces support one conclusion.
Compare a news article, weather map, and safety notice to decide whether an outdoor school event should continue.

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