ELA.6.RML.5

Deciding whether to trust who is behind a media message, including content-generating technology.

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Builds on

Where to go for intervention

Grade 5

ELA.5.RML.5NewGrade 5 identifies who made a media message and describes ways to be an expert. Grade 6 evaluates their credibility, including content-generating technology, and this becomes a Priority.Students identify people who create media messages and choices they make.

ELA.6.RML.5

Priority

Students evaluate the credibility of those responsible for media messages, as well as content-generating technology.

a.Identify those responsible for the content of media messages.
b.Determine whether those responsible for media messages have expertise about the topic.
c.Identify resources that evaluate the reputations for accuracy of those responsible for media messages.
d.Determine whether those responsible for media messages exhibit a perspective relevant to the topic.

Common Core: RI.6.6 RI.6.9 W.6.8

ResourcesWIDAOSPI

WIDA language connections1

Explain

ELD-SI.4-12.Explain · Language for Social and Instructional Purposes, Grades 4-12

Generate and convey initial thinking
Follow and describe cycles and sequences of steps or procedures and their causes and effects
Compare changing variables, factors, and circumstances

OSPI's example connections to the WIDA ELD Standards Framework. How to read these

From OSPI

Smarter Balanced interim assessment

Research: Evaluate Information and Sources
- Research Target 3, item 7

On the SBA

PRISM's read

OSPI points to a single research item on evaluating sources. Content-generating technology is new wording in 2026, and the published targets do not name it.

OSPI's interim connections

Research: Evaluate Information and Sources
- Claim 4: Research/Inquiry, Target 3: Evaluate Information and Sources, item 7

Smarter Balanced publishes its claims and targets in its content specifications, written to the Common Core. A 2026 standard reaches them through OSPI's crosswalk. Check them before anything official.

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Where it goes next

Grade 7

ELA.7.RML.5PriorityThe same four parts. Where Grade 6 finds resources that evaluate reputations, Grade 7 describes those reputations for accuracy and logic.Students evaluate the credibility of those responsible for media messages, as well as content-generating technology.

Connects to

Taught alongside it, including its supporting standards.

ELA.6.RML.1PriorityChoosing sources during research is where judging credibility gets used.Students engage in research and inquiry by asking questions and seeking answers from information sources.ELA.6.RML.4Evaluating the message itself, alongside who made it.Students evaluate components of media messages, as well as content generated by technology, when looking for information that’s accurate.ELA.6.R.6NewEvaluating a text and evaluating who stands behind a message are close to the same habit.Students evaluate texts.