2013+IFC+Benchmarks


 * Here is an extrapolated listing of the grade level benchmarks from the NYC Information Fluency Continuum. **
 * During our time, you may be asked to "create" something paying attention to your "goal" - or benchmarks.**

1.2 Recognizes that fiction and picture books are organized by the author’s last name in A-B-C order. 1.3 Distinguishes between fact and opinion. 1.4 Finds facts and briefly summarizes them via writing, drawing, or verbalization to answer research questions.. 1.5 Draws a conclusion about the main idea with guidance. 1.6 Asks, “What do I wonder about now?” 1.7 Identifies own strengths and sets goals for improvement || 2.2 Asks “I wonder” questions about the research topic. 2.3 Follows a modeled inquiry process during each visit to the library to do research. 2.4 Writes, draws, or verbalizes the main idea and supporting details. 2.5 Compares new ideas with what was known at the beginning of inquiry. 2.6 Presents information in a variety of ways (e.g., art, music, poetry, movement, verbally, and/or written language). 2.7 Identifies own strengths and sets goals for improvement. || 3.2 Searches the online catalog (author, title, and subject) with assistance to locate materials. 3.3 Uses bookmarked Websites to find appropriate information. 3.4 States the main idea. 3.5 Chooses the format for the product based on personal preference or uses format chosen by the teacher or librarian. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3.6 Presents information clearly so that main points are evident. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3.7 Assesses and revises own work with guidance. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3.8 Identifies own strengths and sets goals for improvement. || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4.2 Asks questions to clarify topics or details. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4.3 Predicts answers to inquiry questions based on background knowledge and beginning observation or experience.. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4.4 Uses selected search engines to find appropriate information. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4.5 Paraphrases and summarizes information that answers research questions <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4.6 Identifies facts and details that support main ideas. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4.7 Uses common organizational patterns (chronological order, main idea with supporting details) to organize information. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 4.8 Identifies and evaluates the important features for a good product. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4.9 Assesses and revises own work with guidance. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4.10 Identifies own strengths and sets goals for improvement. || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5.2 Assesses questions to determine which can be answered by simple facts, which cannot be answered, and which would lead to an interesting inquiry. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5.3 Selects and uses multiple appropriate print, nonprint, electronic, and human sources to answer questions. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5.4 Uses navigation tools of a Website to find information. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5.5 Evaluates print and electronic information for usefulness, relevance, and accuracy. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5.6 Uses various note taking strategies (e.g., outlining, underlining, bulleted lists, highlighting, graphic organizers). <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5.7 Forms opinion and uses evidence from text to back it up. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5.8 Cites all sources used according to model provided by teacher. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5.9 Modifies and revises own work based on feedback from teacher and others. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5.10 Assesses and revises own work with guidance. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5.11 Identifies own strengths and sets goals for improvement. || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">6.2 Uses both primary and secondary sources. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">6.3 Combines information and weighs evidence to draw conclusions and create meaning. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">6.4 Presents conclusions and supporting facts in a variety of ways. || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">7.2 Analyzes and evaluates what is known, observed or experienced to form tentative thesis or hypothesis. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">7.3 Evaluates quality of electronic and print information for usefulness, currency, authority, and accuracy. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">7.4 Uses both facts and opinions responsibly by identifying and verifying them. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">7.5 Uses common organizational patterns (chronological order, cause and effect, compare/contrast) to organize information in order to draw conclusions. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">7.6 Interprets information and ideas by defining, classifying, and inferring. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">7.7 Cites all sources used according to local style formats. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">7.8 Uses established criteria or collaborates with classmates and teacher to develop criteria for assessment. || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">8.2 Refines questions to guide the search for different types of information (e.g., overview, big-idea, specific detail, cause and effect, comparison). <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">8.3 Uses different formats (e.g. books, Websites, subscription databases, multimedia, graphs, charts, maps and diagrams) as sources of information. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">8.4 Recognizes the effect of different perspectives and points of view on information. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">8.5 Recognizes that own point of view influences the interpretation of information. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">8.6 Draws conclusions based on explicit and implied information. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">8.7 Creates products for authentic reasons and audiences. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">8.8 Identifies own strengths and sets goals for improvement. || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">9.2 Develops a schema or mind map to express the big idea and the relationships among supporting ideas and topics of interest. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">9.3 Takes notes using one or more of a variety of note taking strategies, including reflecting on the information (e.g., graphic organizers, two-column notes). <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">9.4 Organizes information independently, deciding the structure based on the relationships among ideas and general patterns discovered. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">9.5 Identifies own strengths and sets goals for improvement. || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">10.2 Refines questions to provide a framework for the inquiry and to fulfill the purpose of the research. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">10.3 Conducts advanced Web searches using Boolean logic and other sophisticated search functions. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">10.4 Draws clear and appropriate conclusions supported by evidence and examples. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">10.5 Cites all sources used according to standard style formats. || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">11.2 Pursues a balanced perspective by evaluating information based on authority, accuracy, point of view, and reliability. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">11.3 Uses the organizational features of a book as well as abstracts, tables, charts and first and last chapters to locate main ideas, specific supporting evidence, and a balanced perspective. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">11.4 Presents different perspectives with evidence for each. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">11.5 Chooses the most appropriate format, tone and language to communicate ideas clearly in real world formats to different audiences. || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">12.2 Challenges ideas in text and makes notes of questions to pursue in additional sources. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">12.3 Builds a conceptual framework by synthesizing ideas gathered from multiple sources
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">BENCHMARKS ** ||
 * === Grade 1 === ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">1.1 Share what is known about the general topic to elicit and make connections to prior knowledge
 * === Grade 2 === ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">2.1 Recognizes that questions can be answered by finding information.
 * === Grade 3 === ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3.1 Identifies the ten major Dewey areas and what main topics are included in each.
 * === Grade 4 === ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4.1 Generates a list of key words for a research-based project with guidance
 * === Grade 5 === ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5.1 Uses sources to acquire background information and brainstorms ideas for further inquiry.
 * === Grade 6 === ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">6.1 Uses online catalog independently to locate specific books, get classification numbers, and browse the shelves.
 * === Grade 7 === ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">7.1 States and verifies what is known about the problem or question and makes connections to prior knowledge.
 * === Grade 8 === ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">8.1 Revises the question or problem as needed to arrive at a manageable topic for inquiry.
 * === Grade 9 === ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">9.1 Identifies key words, concepts, and synonyms, both stated and implied, for topic and uses them to further research.
 * === Grade 10 === ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">10.1 Develops and refines the topic, problem, or question independently to arrive at a worthy and manageable topic for inquiry.
 * === Grade 11 === ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">11.1 Plans inquiry to systematically test hypothesis or to gather evidence to validate thesis.
 * === Grade 12 === ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">12.1 Explores problems or questions for which there are multiple answers or no “best” answer.

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">12.4 Develops own point of view and supports with evidence <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">12.5 Evaluates own product and process throughout the work and uses self-assessment, teacher feedback, and peer feedback to make revisions when necessary ||

|||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.1 Generates a list of key words for a research-based project with guidance. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.1 Key Words for Online Searching ||  || |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.2 Asks questions to clarify topics or details. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.3 Predicts answers to inquiry questions based on background knowledge and beginning observation or experience. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.2 Main Ideas and Details
 * |||| **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">BENCHMARKS **  ||||||||  **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">ASSESSMENTS **  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grade 4 ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Connect
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wonder

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.3 Predicting Answers ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.5 Paraphrases and summarizes information that answers research questions. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.4 Selecting the Right Sources
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Investigate  |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.4 Uses selected search engines to find appropriate information.

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.5 Paraphrasing Chart ||  || |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.6 Identifies facts and details that support main ideas.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Construct

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.7 Uses common organizational patterns (chronological order, main idea with supporting details) to organize information. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.6 Mapping the Main Idea and Supporting Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.6 Summarizing the Important Ideas

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.7 Supporting the Main Idea ||  || |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.8 Identifies and evaluates the important features for a good product. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.9 Assesses and revises own work with guidance. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.10 Identifies own strengths and sets goals for improvement. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.8 Identifying the Story Elements
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Express  ||||   ||||||||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reflect

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.9 Using Feedback to Revise My Work <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.10 Strengths and Goals ||  || |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.1 Uses sources to acquire background information and brainstorms ideas for further inquiry. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.1 Using Background Information to Brainstorm Ideas ||  || |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.2 Assesses questions to determine which can be answered by simple facts, which cannot be answered, and which would lead to an interesting inquiry. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.2 Writing Questions That Lead to Inquiry ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.4 Uses navigation tools of a Website to find information. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.5 Evaluates print and electronic information for usefulness, relevance, and accuracy. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.6 Uses various note taking strategies (e.g., outlining, underlining, bulleted lists, highlighting, graphic organizers). |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.3 Using Multiple Sources
 * |||| **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">BENCHMARKS **  ||||||||  **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">ASSESSMENTS **  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grade 5 ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Connect
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wonder
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Investigate  |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.3 Selects and uses multiple appropriate print, non-print, electronic, and human sources to answer questions.

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.4 Using Website Navigation Tools <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.5 Evaluation Tool Sheet

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.6 Notetaking Grid <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.6 Notetaking by Question ||  || |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.7 Forms opinion and uses evidence from text to back it up. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.7 Using Evidence to Support Opinions ||  || |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.8 Cites all sources used according to model provided by teacher. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.9 Modifies and revises own work based on feedback from teacher and others. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.8 Bibliography Worksheet
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Construct
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Express

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.9, 5.10 Using Feedback to Revise My Work ||  || |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.10 Assesses and revises own work with guidance. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.11 Identifies own strengths and sets goals for improvement. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.9, 5.10 Using Feedback to Revise My Work <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.11 Strengths and Goals ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">6.2 Uses both primary and secondary sources. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">6.1 Online Catalog
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reflect
 * |||| **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">BENCHMARKS ** |||||||| **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">ASSESSMENTS ** ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grade 6 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Connect  ||||||   ||||||||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wonder  ||||||   ||||||||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Investigate  |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">6.1 Uses online catalog independently to locate specific books, get classification numbers, and browse the shelves.

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">6.2 Making Inferences from Facts || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">6.3 Combines information and weighs evidence to draw conclusions and create meaning. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">6.3 Drawing Conclusions from Information || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">6.4 Presents conclusions and supporting facts in a variety of ways. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">6.4 Conclusions and Supporting Evidence <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">6.4 CEI: Claim, Evidence and Interpretation || |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.1 States and verifies what is known about the problem or question and makes connections to prior knowledge. |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.1 Predicting Answers to Inquiry Questions || |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.2 Analyzes and evaluates what is known, observed or experienced to form tentative thesis or hypothesis. |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.2 Developing Focus Questions || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.4 Uses both facts and opinions responsibly by identifying and verifying them. |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.3 Notetaking Grid
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Inquiry Phase: Construct
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Inquiry Phase: Express
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reflect  ||||||   ||||||||   ||
 * |||||| **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">BENCHMARKS ** |||||||| **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">ASSESSMENTS ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grade 7 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Connect
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wonder
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Investigate  |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.3 Evaluates quality of electronic and print information for usefulness, currency, authority, and accuracy.

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.3 Website Evaluation

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.4 Fact vs. Opinion || |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.5 Uses common organizational patterns (chronological order, cause and effect, compare/contrast) to organize information in order to draw conclusions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Construct

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.6 Interprets information and ideas by defining, classifying, and inferring. |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.5 Cause and Effect Diagram <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.5 One Cause/One Effect <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.5 Cause-Effect Chart <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.5 Chain-of-Events <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.5 Chronological Order <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.5 Time Sequence Organizer <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.5 Flow Chart <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.6 Readers Make Inferences || |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.7 Cites all sources used according to local style formats. |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.7 Bibliography Worksheet || |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.8 Uses established criteria or collaborates with classmates and teacher to develop criteria for assessment. |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.8 Self-Assessment || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.1 Revises the question or problem as needed to arrive at a manageable topic for inquiry. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.1 Narrowing Down a Large Topic <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.1 Narrowing Down a Large Topic - || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.2 Refines questions to guide the search for different types of information (e.g., overview, big-idea, specific detail, cause and effect, comparison). |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.2 Refining Research Question to Search for Different Types of Information || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.4 Recognizes the effect of different perspectives and points of view on information. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.5 Recognizes that own point of view influences the interpretation of information. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.3 Using Different Sources
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Express
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reflect
 * |||||| **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">BENCHMARKS **  ||||||||  **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">ASSESSMENTS **  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grade 8 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Connect
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wonder
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Investigate  |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.3 Uses different formats (e.g. books, Websites, subscription databases, multimedia, graphs, charts, maps and diagrams) as sources of information.

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.4 The Effects of Different Perspectives on Issues/Topics <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.5 Point of View Influences Interpretation or Information || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.6 Drawing Conclusions from Information || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.7 Creates products for authentic reasons and audiences. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.7 My Research Project || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.8 Identifies own strengths and sets goals for improvement. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.8 Strengths and Goals || |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.1 Identifies key words, concepts, and synonyms, both stated and implied, for topic and uses them to further research. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.2 Develops a schema or mind map to express the big idea and the relationships among supporting ideas and topics of interest. |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.1 Identifying Key Words, Concepts, Synonyms and Related Terms
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Construct  |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.6 Draws conclusions based on explicit and implied information. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">8.6 CEI: Claim, Evidence and Interpretation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Express
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reflect
 * |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">BENCHMARKS |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">ASSESSMENTS ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grade 9 ||||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Connect

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.2 Mind Mapping ||||  || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.3 Reflective Notetaking <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.3 Notetaking to Answer Questions <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.3 Notes on Main Ideas and Supporting Evidence <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.3 Notes on Main Ideas and Supporting Evidence - //Example// ||||  || |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.4 Organizes information independently, deciding the structure based on the relationships among ideas and general patterns discovered. |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.4 Organizing Information – //Example// <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.4 Organizing Information - Rubric ||||  || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.5 My Strengths in the Inquiry Process – Example ||||  || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.1 Develops and refines the topic, problem, or question independently to arrive at a worthy and manageable topic for inquiry. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.1 Exploring Background Information to Refine Research Topic <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.1 Hooking to an Inquiry Topic <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.1 Connecting to a Manageable Topic ||||  || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.2 Refines questions to provide a framework for the inquiry and to fulfill the purpose of the research. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.2 Refining Research Questions <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.2 Developing Focus Questions at Different Levels of Thought ||||  || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.3 Conducts advanced Web searches using Boolean logic and other sophisticated search functions. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.3 Advanced Web Searching <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.3 Advanced Searching - Review ||||  || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.4 Draws clear and appropriate conclusions supported by evidence and examples. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.4 Drawing Conclusions Supported by Evidence <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.4 Drawing Conclusions from Looking at Multiple Perspectives ||||  || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.5 Cites all sources used according to standard style formats. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.5 Bibliography Worksheet <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.5 Sample Bibliography Entries – MLA Style ||||  || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.6 Records individual experience of the inquiry process – the hardest part, best part, skills learned, insights experienced, etc. with suggestions for future improvements. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.6 Individual Experience of Inquiry ||||  || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.1 Plans inquiry to systematically test hypothesis or to gather evidence to validate thesis. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.1 Gathering Evidence to Support Thesis <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.1 Gathering Evidence to Support Thesis - Example ||||  || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.2 Pursues a balanced perspective by evaluating information based on authority, accuracy, point of view, and reliability.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wonder  ||||   ||||||   ||||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Investigate  |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.3 Takes notes using one or more of a variety of note taking strategies, including reflecting on the information (e.g., graphic organizers, two-column notes). |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.3 Notetaking Grid
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Construct
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Express  ||||   ||||||   ||||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reflect  |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.5 Identifies own strengths and sets goals for improvement. |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.5 My Strengths in the Inquiry Process
 * |||||| **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">BENCHMARKS **  ||||  **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">ASSESSMENTS **  ||||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grade 10 ||||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Connect
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wonder
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Investigate
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Construct
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Express
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reflect
 * |||||| **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">BENCHMARKS **  ||||  **<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">ASSESSMENTS **  ||||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grade 11 ||||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Connect  ||||||   ||||   ||||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wonder
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Investigate

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.3 Uses the organizational features of a book as well as abstracts, tables, charts and first and last chapters to locate main ideas, specific supporting evidence, and a balanced perspective. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.2 Source Comparison

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.3 Using Organizational Features of a Book to Locate Information ||||  || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.4 Presents different perspectives with evidence for each. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.4 Viewpoints/Beliefs/Actions <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.4 Developing a Line of Argument <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.4 Historical Perspective Taking/Empathy ||||  || |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.5 Chooses the most appropriate format, tone and language to communicate ideas clearly in real world formats to different audiences. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.5 Communicating Ideas to an Audience ||||  || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.2 Learning Logs for Reflective Notetaking || |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.3 Builds a conceptual framework by synthesizing ideas gathered from multiple sources
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Construct
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Express
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reflect  ||||||   ||||   ||||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grade 12 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Connect  |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 12.1 Explores problems or questions for which there are multiple answers or no “best” answer. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.1 Selecting Complex Research Problems or Questions ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wonder  ||||   ||||||||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Investigate  |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.2 Challenges ideas in text and makes notes of questions to pursue in additional sources. |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.2 Investigating Ideas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Construct

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.4 Develops own point of view and supports with evidence |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.3 Concept Maps for Organizing Thinking <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.3 Concept Map

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.4 Supporting an Opinion || |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.5 Evaluates own product and process throughout the work and uses self-assessment, teacher feedback, and peer feedback to make revisions when necessary |||||||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.5 Student Research Checklist <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.5 Inquiry Process Questions ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Express