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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 6
Strand - Writing
Cluster - Research to Build and Present Knowledge
[W.6.7] - Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
- Research
Systematic inquiry into a subject or problem in order to discover, verify, or revise relevant facts or principles. - Source
Text used largely for informational purposes, as in research. - Synthesis (Synthesize)
Combination of information or other elements from different sources into a unified work with original structure and substance. In contrast to summary, synthesis is an advanced technique that both reflects understanding of the source texts and adds new insight to them.
[W.5.7] -
Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
[W.7.7] -
Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.