Research Writing

Teaching kids about the solar system using foldables and writing responses!

Are your students creating disorganized paragraphs when writing about information or expository text? Find out how I help students organize their facts before writing a paragraph about an animal. This is Week 4 of a series on Informational Writing.

Teaching students about primary and secondary sources is important in the…

Help your students with research projects by providing them with this handy foldable reference document. Provides current MLA 8th edition updates and most commonly used resources for middle school. Print, fold, and use!

This product has been updated (6/12/14) to include SEVEN writing graphic organizers your students can use to plan and organize their writing pieces: narrative writing, two versions of opinion writing, informational writing, and how-to writing. I’ve also included two prewriting sheets for research reports: an animal report and a planet report.

Research anchor chart

Use this flipbook to scaffold the writing of an animal report. The colored and blackline templates, vocabulary cards, and wordsearch are sure to make learning fun. Use this resource as a stand-alone flipbook or in an interactive notebook. www.teacherspayt

Awesome unit - colonial research. Could be adapted to different historical topics.

Comprehension Activity 1: This activity will help teachers and students assess how students understood what was read. This question web will be able to help develop questions, answer questions, and draw conclusions as to what they have read.

3-2-1 Nonfiction research strategy from Read Write Think, I have used the printable, but I had not thought about a chart.

Love these foldables from Runde's Room - great ideas for making resarching organized and fun, too.

5 Tips for Successful Research Projects - Overwhelmed by the thought of doing a research project with your elementary students? These tips will help streamline the process so that ALL of your students will be successful, including students that struggle to write complete sentences. Use these tips to make your elementary research projects engaging, motivating, and enjoyable again! (Adventures of a Schoolmarm on Classroom Tested Resources)

Anchor Chart Paraphrasing with STP. I used this for a mini-lesson for the fourth grade research project.

Inquiry Research: Moving Students Toward Independence (The Thinker Builder)

Informational writing graphic organizer- would be good to use for the first whole class model.

Nonfiction Writing--great organizational printable that encourages kids to sort their facts into paragraphs by topic, include key vocabulary, and even a possible text feature.