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.7.12
When doing research, students are expected to be actively involved in an ongoing process of gathering and examining information in different ways and for a variety of reasons. Depending on the stage of the research work, the topic, or the questions that students generate, this process can focus on specific aspects of the subject being studied (e.g., identifying oil-producing regions in Texas) or be sustained throughout the study (e.g., describing the impact of the oil industry on Texas). The former is an example of a short-term inquiry, whereas the latter illustrates a sustained, recursive inquiry.
