Whether students are constructing Gathering and Evaluating opinions, explanation, or arguments, Sources they will gather information from a variety of sources and evaluate the Individually and with others, relevance of that information. In this students… section, students are asked to work with the sources that they gather and/or are D3.1.6-8. Gather relevant provided for them. It is important for information from multiple sources students to use online and print sources, while using the origin, authority, and they need to be mindful that not all structure, context, and corroborative sources are relevant to their task. They value of the sources to guide the also need to understand that there are selection. general Common Core literacy skills, D3.2.6-8. Evaluate the credibility of a such as identifying an purpose, author’s source by determining its relevance main idea, and point of view, that will and intended use. help in evaluating the usefulness of a source. Developing Claims and Using Evidence This subsection focuses on argumentation. In contrast to opinions Individually and with others, and explanations, argumentation students… involves the ability to understand the source-to-evidence relationship. That Identify evidence that D3.3.6-8. relationship emphasizes the draws information from multiple development of claims and sources to support claims, counterclaims and the purposeful noting evidentiary limitations. selection of evidence in support of those D3.4.6-8. Develop claims and claims and counterclaims. Students will counterclaims while pointing out the learn to develop claims using evidence, strengths and limitations of both. but their initial claims will often be tentative and probing. As students delve deeper into the available sources, they construct more sophisticated claims and counterclaims that draw on evidence from multiple sources. Whether those claims are implicitly or explicitly stated in student products, they will reflect the evidence students have selected from the sources they have consulted. C3 Framework INDICATORS: Grades 6-8 C3 INDICATORS DESCRIPTION APPLICATION CONNECTIONS TO THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS
Gathering and Evaluating Sources Individually and with others, students… D3.1.6-8. Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection. D3.2.6-8. Evaluate the credibility of a source by determining its relevance and intended use. Developing Claims and Using Evidence Individually and with others, students… D3.3.6-8. Identify evidence that draws information from multiple sources to support claims, noting evidentiary limitations. D3.4.6-8. Develop claims and counterclaims while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both. Whether students are constructing opinions, explanation, or arguments, they will gather information from a variety of sources and evaluate the relevance of that information. In this section, students are asked to work with the sources that they gather and/or are provided for them. It is important for students to use online and print sources, and they need to be mindful that not all sources are relevant to their task. They also need to understand that there are general Common Core literacy skills, such as identifying an author’s purpose, main idea, and point of view, that will help in evaluating the usefulness of a source. This subsection focuses on argumentation. In contrast to opinions and explanations, argumentation involves the ability to understand the source-to-evidence relationship. That relationship emphasizes the development of claims and counterclaims and the purposeful selection of evidence in support of those claims and counterclaims. Students will learn to develop claims using evidence, but their initial claims will often be tentative and probing. As students delve deeper into the available sources, they construct more sophisticated claims and counterclaims that draw on evidence from multiple sources. Whether those claims are implicitly or explicitly stated in student products, they will reflect the evidence students have selected from the sources they have consulted. C3 Framework INDICATORS: Grades 6-8 C3 INDICATORS DESCRIPTION APPLICATION CONNECTIONS TO THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS
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