Virginia SOL 5.R.1.B
The Standard
Identify search terms to locate information and gather relevant information from various print and digital sources to address the research.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Evaluation and Synthesis of Information
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students turn a research question into focused keywords and phrases. They use those terms to find relevant facts in books, reference materials, databases, and websites.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students create focused search terms and revise them when results are too broad or narrow. They gather useful facts from print and digital sources and explain how each fact answers the research question.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may type the whole research question instead of choosing focused keywords. They may select the first result, collect unrelated facts, or treat several websites as varied source types.
How to Assess It
- Give students the question, “How do bees help gardens?” Ask them to write three search phrases and name one print and one digital source they would check.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Set out reference books and tablets, then have students find one fact with two keyword phrases and record each source.
Ask students to compare “weather” with “how hurricanes form” and explain which search terms would produce more useful results.
Play Keyword Makeover by giving teams broad searches to revise into focused phrases, then award points for relevant results.
Have students research a class garden purchase using a catalog, a gardening book, and a store website, then recommend one plant.
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- 4.R.1.B
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Apply knowledge of text features and search tools in multiple print and digital sources to locate and categorize information efficiently and gain meaning.
- 10.R.1.B
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