Below are the Common Core standards for literacy in social studies. Read them carefully, then sort them into categories by dragging each standard into the appropriate column. If you prefer, you can also do this activity using a form with radio buttons. Some browsers may work best with (or show only) one or the other format; use the one that works best for you.
| Standards | Categories | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Key Ideas and Details | Craft and Structure | Integration of Knowledge and Ideas | |
| Evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors’ claims, evidence, and reasoning. | |||
| Determine the main ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; summarize the source, basing the summary on information in the text rather than on prior knowledge or opinions. | |||
| Identify how a history/social studies text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally). | |||
| Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic. | |||
| Determine the main ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; summarize how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text. | |||
| Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies. | |||
| Evaluate an author’s premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other sources of information. | |||
| Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text and the causes that link the events; distinguish whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them. | |||
| Integrate graphical information (e.g., pictures, videos, maps, time lines) with other information in a print or digital text. | |||
| Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts). | |||
| Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a historical account. | |||
| Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources. | |||
| Integrate quantitative or technical information presented in maps, time lines, and videos with other information in a print or digital text. | |||
| Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered). | |||
| Interpret the meaning of words and phrases in a text, including how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10 and No. 51). | |||
| Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources. | |||
| Explain how an author chooses to structure information or an explanation in a text to emphasize key points or advance a point of view. | |||
| Synthesize ideas and data presented graphically and determine their relationship to the rest of a print or digital text, noting discrepancies between the graphics and other information in the text. | |||
| Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. | |||
| Determine the main ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide a summary that makes clear the relationships between the key details and ideas. | |||
| Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources. | |||
| Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text, including the vocabulary describing political, economic, or social aspects of history. | |||
| Analyze in detail how a complex primary source is structured, including how key sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text contribute to the whole. | |||
| Analyze how ideas and beliefs emerge, develop, and influence events, based on evidence in the text. | |||
| Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole. | |||
| Assess the extent to which the evidence in a text supports the author’s claims. | |||
| Compare the point of view of two or more authors by comparing how they treat the same or similar historical topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts. | |||