How can you tell they’ve got it: Research & Source Evaluation?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Take notes from multiple sources on a topic and organise them under logical headings; Paraphrase information from a source accurately without copying word-for-word; Assess whether a source is credible and relevant before including it in research writing. Or just try it together: If your child is preparing for a school project, can they gather notes from several sources and organise them into a logical order before they start writing?

English Writing Composition Ages 11–14

Research & Source Evaluation

Your child can gather facts from several sources and judge if they can be trusted. They use the facts in their own words, not copied.

In curriculum terms

Summarise and organise material from reading and research — gathering relevant information from multiple sources, assessing credibility, integrating evidence without plagiarising, and supporting ideas with factual detail

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Take notes from multiple sources on a topic and organise them under logical headings
Paraphrase information from a source accurately without copying word-for-word
Assess whether a source is credible and relevant before including it in research writing

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Try this together

If your child is preparing for a school project, can they gather notes from several sources and organise them into a logical order before they start writing?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Literary Evidence in Writingages 9–11Summarising and organising material from multiple sources, including assessing credibility and integrating evidence, builds on the prior skill of drawing evidence specifically from literary texts and applying reading standards to literature

Research & Note-Takingages 10–11The advanced research skill of summarising from multiple sources while assessing credibility and avoiding plagiarism requires the prior ability to gather and take organised notes from print and digital sources

Writing a Précisages 10–11Research and source integration extends KS2 precis of longer passages

Developed Informational and Explanatory Writingages 11–14Research writing feeds into informative/explanatory writing

Research & Source Evaluationthis skill · ages 11–14

Unlocks

Writing Science Reportsages 13–14A scientific report drawing on multiple sources and peer-reviewed literature requires the summarising and source-integration skills developed in English

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 3 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9E5LA02low confidenceYear 5 · Language

understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2E6LY08medium confidenceEnglish · Level 6 · Literacy strand

VC2E6LY06low confidenceEnglish · Level 6 · Literacy strand

VC2E5LA02low confidenceEnglish · Level 5 · Language strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

Nearby on the map

Cohesion and Transitions Across Writingages 11–14 Developed Informational and Explanatory Writingages 11–14 Persuasive Writingages 11–14 Planning, Revising and Editing Writingages 11–14

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