Mini Research Project on a Poet Virtual Writing Reading Activities
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Description
Deepen your students' understanding of poetry. Invite your students to learn more about a poet -- and deepen their understanding of poetry. Use this resource to help your students sharpen their research skills and learn about a poet.
Teaching research skills is a snap with this easy-to-use digital notebook. It will guide your students with research questions and prompts that will direct their research.
What teachers are saying about my digital resources:
- "Saved me a ton of time and it was perfect to add to Google Classroom"
- "Exactly what I needed. Thank you!"
- "Fun and well thought out resource!"
By the end of this lesson, your students will have:
- researched a poet of either their or your choosing
- created a list of questions about this person
- used reference materials to locate information about how a person grew up and lived
- imported/found pictures
- determined type of poetry the poet wrote (or writes)
- found other texts written by this person
- determined challenges and influences
- found a poem by this writer & respond to it personally
- created a fact sheet
- evaluated why people enjoy this poetry
- determined famous or popular works
- listed awards received
- created a digital or print poster that can be shared with others
- created a works cited page
What you'll get:
- digital notebook your students can use today
- the notebook includes prompts - so it's self-directed
- research questions
- teacher resource with tips for getting the most from this
This is going to save you so much time!
Ways to use this:
This research notebook is flexible!
- Allow students to choose any poet to research
- Create a list for your students can choose from
- Complete a whole-class study
- Use for author studies
- Self-guided
Reasons to love this digital resource:
- ready to use today -- just share with your students!
- easy-to-use to incorporate research into your warm ups, workshop time, or centers
- prompts direct students -- helps them control the amount of information they need to find
- makes research fun and interesting!
- a great sub plan!
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With gratitude,
Marypat