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5th grade · English Language Arts · Unit 10 of 11

Research Ready

Questions, sources, notes and credit

What your child practices

Children practice narrowing a research question, searching with keywords, judging sources, telling sponsored content from information, taking notes, paraphrasing and citing sources instead of copying.

California Content Standards learning standard: W.5.7; W.5.8 · research questions, judging sources, taking notes and listing sources

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Priya writes, “According to a museum website, the oldest tree is over 4,000 years old.” What did she do well?

    • she named her source
    • she made the fact up
    • she used an opinion
    • she left out the number

  2. Question 2

    What are keywords?

    • the longest words in a book
    • words you made up
    • words with capital letters
    • the most important words to search with

  3. Question 3

    Which statement from a website is an opinion?

    • Aluminum cans can be recycled.
    • Recycling is the most important thing anyone can do.
    • Many cities collect recycling each week.
    • Paper is made from wood fibers.

  4. Question 4

    A post has thousands of likes. Does that make it true?

    • no, likes show popularity, not accuracy
    • yes, if it is short
    • yes, many people agree
    • yes, if it has a picture

  5. Question 5

    What does it mean to paraphrase?

    • put someone's idea in your own words
    • copy the words exactly
    • skip the main idea
    • add made-up facts

  6. Question 6

    An article says “Studies show kids love our shoes!” but names no study. What is the problem?

    • it uses the word shoes
    • it is a fact
    • it is too short
    • the claim has no evidence you can check

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