Common Core Standards
Grade 6
Reading RI.6.7
Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
This Common Core Standard can be summarized into two words: understand everything. (If you want to get a little more complex, here it is in five words: look at and understand everything.) In order to fulfill this standard, students should be able to look at photos, diagrams, charts, and see how they connect to what they're reading about in the actual text. They also should be able to, you know, understand everything presented to them.
Example 1
Here's a lesson to use when teaching any nonfiction topic of your choosing.
Have students read and interpret web articles and evaluate the nonverbal information on the page such as graphs, pictures, captions, etc.
Aligned Resources
- Teaching A Little Princess: Follow the Leader
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Exploring Homelessness
- Teaching Dragonwings: Disasters
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Let's Do the Time Warp
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Integration In Our Nation
- Teaching The Phantom Tollbooth: The Phantom Tollbooth WebQuest
- Teaching Out of the Dust: Art Imitates Life
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Create Your Own Knowledge Bowl
- Teaching When You Reach Me: Mysteries of Science
- Using and Citing Online Sources: In Plain Cite: How To Credit Others' Work
- Teaching Hatchet: Biology 101
- Teaching A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Nickeled & Dimed
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Right Brain Versus Left Brain
- Internet Safety and Ethics: Oh No, You Didn't!: Internet Dangers and Strategies for Staying Safe
- Online Research and Keyword Search Techniques: Key(word)s to Your Heart: Google Search Tips
- ELA Online: Digital Literacy Connections to English Language Arts: Twilight Activity: The Cullen Cars
- How To Evaluate a Website: Fact or Fiction: How to Decide What Sites Keep It Real
- Teaching Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: Google Maps: A Modern Tool for a Modern Rat
- Teaching Farewell to Manzanar: Do You See What I See?
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Getting To Know a Turtle (Almost)
- Teaching American Born Chinese: Individual Identity
- Teaching A Little Princess: What Happens to Them?
- Internet Privacy and Security: Without A (Big) Trace: Managing Your Digital Footprint
- Teaching Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: The Great Lab Rat Debate
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: The Rules of Flag Flying (You Read That Right)
- Teaching A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: How Different Was It Really?
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: The Quotable Mrs. Who
- Teaching Black Beauty: Writing a Didactic Story
- Online Community, Culture, and Citizenship: The Ties That Bind: How To Be A Good Online Citizen
- Online Community, Culture, and Citizenship: E-Organizing for A Better World: Internet Activism
- Online Research and Keyword Search Techniques: Research Basics: Where in the World (Wide Web) Is…?
- Teaching When You Reach Me: I'm Gonna Buy…