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