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7th grade · English Language Arts · Unit 11 of 13

Research Skills

Primary sources, credibility and citations

What your child practices

Children practice primary and secondary sources, conflicts of interest, focused searches, checking AI answers and online images, quoting, paraphrasing and citing.

Washington State Learning Standards learning standard: ELA.7.RML.1; ELA.7.RML.4; ELA.7.RML.5 · research and inquiry, accurate information and the credibility of people and technology behind it

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

    Why should you check several sources for a controversial topic?

    • to avoid reading
    • to understand different viewpoints and find accurate facts
    • to copy more
    • to make your report longer

  2. Question 2

    What does “accurate, logical and fair” mean for information?

    • colorful, long and loud
    • new, funny and free
    • correct, well-reasoned and balanced
    • exciting, short and popular

  3. Question 3

    An encyclopedia, a museum website and a science journal all agree. What does this suggest?

    • you need no citation
    • the information is likely reliable
    • they copied each other so it is false
    • it is an opinion

  4. Question 4

    An article was written by a group that sells the product it reviews. This is a…

    • primary source
    • conflict of interest
    • summary
    • citation

  5. Question 5

    What is the difference between a primary and a secondary source?

    • a primary source is first-hand; a secondary source interprets it
    • primary sources are always books
    • there is no difference
    • secondary sources are always older

  6. Question 6

    A source is credible but from 1995. When is that a problem?

    • always
    • never
    • when the topic has changed a lot since then
    • only if it is long

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