Informing the World: Analyzing Nonfiction and Media · Informational Reading

Synthesizing Multiple Sources

Learning to combine information from several texts to speak or write knowledgeably on a topic.

Key Questions

  1. 1How do different authors provide varying perspectives on the same historical event?
  2. 2What is the benefit of using multiple sources when researching a complex topic?
  3. 3How do we reconcile conflicting information found in two different texts?

Common Core State Standards

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.7CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.9
Grade: 5th Grade
Subject: English Language Arts
Unit: Informing the World: Analyzing Nonfiction and Media
Period: Informational Reading

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