inquiry research TEKS talk image

Knowledge and Skills Statement

Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of purposes.

Give students the name of a type of source (e.g., book, article, photograph, biography, autobiography, speech, diary) and ask them to identify whether the source is primary or secondary.

A primary source is a research source from the time in which an event being studied occurred (e.g., letters, speeches, diaries, surveys, field work, personal interviews, photographs, etc.).
a source that is a step removed from the original accounts of an event or experience (e.g., scholarly articles, journalism, reference books such as encyclopedias, history books, textbooks, reviews, or criticisms)
A secondary source is a source that is a step removed from the original accounts of an event or experience (e.g., scholarly articles, journals, reference books such as encyclopedias, history books, textbooks, reviews, etc.).