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. The student is expected to:
A student expectation is directly related to the knowledge and skills statement, is more specific about how students demonstrate their learning, and always begins with a verb. Student expectations are further broken down into their component parts, often referred to as “breakouts.”
A knowledge and skills statement is a broad statement of what students must know and be able to do. It generally begins with a learning strand and ends with the phrase “The student is expected to:” Knowledge and skills statements always include related student expectations.
Glossary Support for ELA.5.13
the act of seeking information by questioning
Inquiry is the process of investigating a topic of interest in order to find out more about it.
the process of objectively investigating and collecting information regarding a particular subject in order to discover facts, theories, or perspectives
When doing research, students are expected to be involved in an ongoing process of gathering and examining information in different ways and for a variety of purposes. Depending on the stage of the research work, the topic, or the questions that students have generated, this process can focus on specific aspects of the topic being studied (e.g., the life cycle of the monarch butterfly) or be sustained throughout the study (e.g., the conditions that affect the migration pattern of the monarch butterfly). The former is an example of a short-term inquiry; the latter illustrates a sustained recursive (or repetitive) inquiry.
