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.
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.6.12
When doing research, students are expected to engage 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, this process can focus on specific aspects of the topic being studied (e.g., identifying major tectonic plates) or be sustained throughout the study (e.g., describing how the movement of tectonic plates causes major geological events). The former is an example of a short-term inquiry, whereas the latter illustrates a sustained recursive inquiry.
