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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.

Consider pairing SE 3.13.E with SE 3.13.H and assess both SEs at the same time. With SE 3.13.H, students use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present results. Support students in selecting an authentic audience to whom to present their research findings. Task students with sharing the results of their research verbally, visually, or musically by creating multimodal presentations. Examples may include a traditional research report, a play, a media presentation, a cartoon, or a brochure.

Further Explanation

This SE requires students to review information collected from sources during the course of their research and apply what they have learned. Students make connections between previous knowledge and new information or by drawing reasonable conclusions from the sources. Students clarify or extend their questions based on the information they learned in order to better refine the focus of their inquiry.

Students should review information collected from sources during the course of their research and apply what they have learned. They may do this by making connections between previous knowledge and new information or by drawing reasonable conclusions from the text. Students may often clarify or extend their research question(s) based on the information they learned in order to better refine the focus of their inquiry. If students are asked to create a timeline about the history of Austin, Texas, they will want to gather both primary sources (e.g., a newspaper column written by an Austin resident) and secondary sources (e.g., a book about how Austin has changed over time). Together, these sources will provide students with the information needed to create a timeline that includes both past and present events.