Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper. Our lesson plans are written and reviewed by educators using current research and the best instructional practices and are aligned to state and national standards. Choose from hundreds of topics and strategies. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals.
More Teacher Resources by Grade Home › Professional Development › Strategy Guides Strategy Guide Research Basis Strategy in Practice Related Resources The sense of curiosity behind research writing gets lost in some school-based assignments. The cognitive demands of research writing are numerous and daunting. The I-Search (Macrorie, 1998) empowers students by making their self-selected questions about themselves, their lives, and their world the focus of the research and writing process. Assaf, L., Ash, G., Saunders, J. and Johnson, J. (2011). Lyman, H. (2006). Macrorie, K. (1998). Scaffolding Methods for Research Paper Writing.
Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Students will use scaffolding to research and organize information for writing a research paper. A research paper scaffold provides students with clear support for writing expository papers that include a question (problem), literature review, analysis, methodology for original research, results, conclusion, and references. Back to top Research Paper Scaffold: This handout guides students in researching and organizing the information they need for writing their research paper. O'Day, S. (2006) Setting the stage for creative writing: Plot scaffolds for beginning and intermediate writers. Research paper scaffolding provides a temporary linguistic tool to assist students as they organize their expository writing. Biancarosa, G., and Snow, C. Wading Through the Web: Teaching Internet Research Strategies. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us.
If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Because the Internet contains a vast amount of information from reliable and unreliable sources, wading through all the material could prove to be overwhelming for students.
Back to top Internet Citation Organizer: Students can use this handout to help them organize the bibliographic data of sources they find on the Internet. Wepner, S., Valmont, W.J., & Thurlow, R. Keywords: Learning to Focus Internet Research. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, videos, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you.
More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview From Theory to Practice This lesson is designed to help students effectively find information on the Internet using the basic features of a kid-friendly search engine.
Back to top Leu, D.J., Jr., Kinzer, C.K., Coiro, J.L., & Cammack, D.W. (2004). Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation. Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Research has shown that online reading requires not only traditional comprehension strategies, but also new digital- and media-literacy strategies.
Back to top Compare & Contrast Map: Using this tool, students can easily compare and contrast a "real" website from a "fake" website. Coiro, J., & Dobler, E. (2007). Reading comprehension on the Internet requires both similar and more complex comprehension applications of traditional text-based strategies, including the use of prior knowledge, inferential reasoning strategies, and self-regulated reading processes.The authors recommend the following repeating pattern of self-regulated reading for websites: planning, predicting, monitoring, and evaluating.
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