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📖 5th Grade · ELAW.5.8Unit 7: Research writing

Credible sources

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🎯 Objective: Students evaluate sources for credibility.

Lesson outline

  1. Compare websites.
  2. Checklist.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: rate one source.

Lesson 2 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

W.5.8

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 5 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Conduct short research projects using several sources
  • Summarize or paraphrase and provide a list of sources

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 5th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Research writing”

  1. Research plan
  2. Credible sources
  3. Notes and paraphrasing
  4. Drafting the report
  5. Presenting

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