--- title: "6.T.RA.1: Research and Inquiry Process (Georgia English Language Arts standard)" code: 6.T.RA.1 cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, English Language Arts, 6.T.RA.1 subject: ela grades: - grade-6 language: en canonical_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.T.RA.1 md_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.T.RA.1.md alternate_language_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/es/standards/code/6.T.RA.1.md source_url: https://case.georgiastandards.org/ims/case/v1p0/CFDocuments/391c3abe-c1ec-4a4a-a942-c9e152b35102 source_last_changed: 2025-11-14 data_built: 2026-09-18 publisher: Georgia Homeroom, a free public-interest project of Georgia Civic Data. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Georgia Department of Education or any school district. up: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-6.md index: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/index.md --- # 6.T.RA.1: Research and Inquiry Process Conduct research, generating questions to guide investigations of complex topics of interest and using credible sources to support analyses. - Subject: English Language Arts - Appears in: Grade 6, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-6.md ## Expectations - **6.T.RA.1.a**: Generate questions to guide research and make connections between related topics of interest, formulating questions to investigate complex topics and ideas. (I) - **6.T.RA.1.b**: Conduct research by locating, gathering, curating, and integrating information from credible sources (including print, digital, and personal communication) about texts and related topics. (I) - **6.T.RA.1.c**: Draw from accumulated knowledge and research to analyze texts, supporting, challenging, or extending ideas and information. (C) ## Georgia Milestones coverage - English Language Arts Grade 6 (EOG). Texts — Constructing Texts. Research & Analysis Students use, discuss, analyze, and curate texts as they engage in various conversations, activities, and projects about a range of grade-level texts and topics. (about 17% of the test; 10 points; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard) - English Language Arts Grade 6 (EOG). Texts — Interpreting Texts. Research & Analysis Students use, discuss, analyze, and curate texts as they engage in various conversations, activities, and projects about a range of grade-level texts and topics. (about 10% of the test; 6 points; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard) ## What mastery looks like Georgia's Achievement Level Descriptors. The levels are cumulative: each includes the ones before it. Proficient is on grade level. - **Beginning**: Generate questions to guide research to investigate a topic. - **Developing**: Generate question(s) to guide research about a topic to extend the investigation of the topics and ideas. Conduct research by locating and/or gathering information from one credible source (including print, digital, and personal communication) about texts or related topics. Draw upon research to support ideas and information. - **Proficient**: Generate questions to guide research and make connections between related topics, formulating questions to investigate topics and ideas across multiple sources. Conduct research by locating, gathering, curating, and/or integrating information from two credible sources about texts and related topics. Draw from accumulated knowledge and research to analyze texts, challenging or extending ideas and information. - **Distinguished**: Conduct research by gathering and integrating relevant information from multiple credible sources about a related topic. ## The same standard across grades - Kindergarten, K.T.RA.1: **Research & Inquiry** Build knowledge about the world by asking or generating questions about topics of interest, researching the answers, using multiple sources, and communicating relevant and accurate information about the topic. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/K.T.RA.1.md - Grade 1, 1.T.RA.1: **Research & Inquiry** Build knowledge about the world by asking or generating questions about topics of interest, researching the answers, using multiple sources, and communicating relevant and accurate information about the topic. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.T.RA.1.md - Grade 2, 2.T.RA.1: **Research & Inquiry** Build knowledge about the world by asking or generating questions about topics of interest, researching the answers, using multiple sources, and communicating relevant and accurate information about the topic. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/2.T.RA.1.md - Grade 3, 3.T.RA.1: **Research & Inquiry** Conduct research to ask and answer questions that clarify, deepen, and extend understanding of a topic of interest using credible sources and communicating relevant and accurate information. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/3.T.RA.1.md - Grade 4, 4.T.RA.1: **Research & Inquiry** Conduct research to ask and answer questions that clarify, deepen, and extend understanding of a topic of interest using credible sources and communicating relevant and accurate information. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/4.T.RA.1.md - Grade 5, 5.T.RA.1: **Research & Inquiry** Conduct research to ask and answer questions that clarify, deepen, and extend understanding of a topic of interest using credible sources and communicating relevant and accurate information. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.T.RA.1.md - **Grade 6, 6.T.RA.1 (this standard)**: **Research & Inquiry** Conduct research, generating questions to guide investigations of complex topics of interest and using credible sources to support analyses. - Grade 7, 7.T.RA.1: **Research & Inquiry** Conduct research, generating questions to guide investigations of complex topics of interest and using credible sources to support analyses. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.T.RA.1.md - Grade 8, 8.T.RA.1: **Research & Inquiry** Conduct research, generating questions to guide investigations of complex topics of interest and using credible sources to support analyses. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/8.T.RA.1.md - Grade 9, 9.T.RA.1: **Research & Inquiry** Conduct research, generating questions to guide investigations of complex topics of interest and using credible sources to support analyses. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/9.T.RA.1.md - Grade 10, 10.T.RA.1: **Research & Inquiry** Conduct research, generating questions to guide investigations of complex topics of interest and using credible sources to support analyses. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/10.T.RA.1.md - Grade 11, 11.T.RA.1: **Research & Inquiry** Conduct research, generating questions to guide investigations of complex topics of interest and using credible sources to support analyses. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/11.T.RA.1.md - Grade 12, 12.T.RA.1: **Research & Inquiry** Conduct research, generating questions to guide investigations of complex topics of interest and using credible sources to support analyses. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/12.T.RA.1.md Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.