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Free middle school writing-essays research
Research Project - Source Templates
When students are doing a research paper, staying organized is key. These templates give students a place to write down the important information about their source, and then the information they found in that source. This will help them then be able to organize their thoughts into their outline and paper, and ultimately into their resources/ bibliography.When students are doing a research project, letting them choose sources is key. Having these available for kids to fill out about their so
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3rd - 12th
African American Civil Rights Movement Research Paper with All Steps
This product provides all steps needed for students to write a research paper on a person who impacted the African American Civil Rights Movement. I've included a research guide, planning guide for a rough draft, peer editing sheet, and rubric for grading. Research Guide for writing Civil Rights Movement Paper.Planning Guide for Rough Draft Peer editing sheet (with 3 editors)Rubric for grading (with 10 categories).Everything corresponds, so students should be able to write paper with ease and
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5th - 8th
Biography Research Essay Template (How Can One Person Change The World?)
Need a template to help your students research about a person that has changed the world? This template provides your students with the guidelines for researching the chosen persons life, achievements, and impact. This packet will also provide the groundwork for an essay summarizing all of their work as well as an essay for describing how they can change the world! This research template can be used to create a Brochure through google slides! Check out my Biography Research Brochure Template (Ho
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3rd - 6th
Research Worksheets | Finding Reliable Sources | Researching Graphic Organizer
★★★★★ Simple, effective worksheets to guide students through researching with reliable sources on ANY topic! This 2-page resource is ready to just print-and-go with NO prep at all. The perfect pre-writing activity for a research-based essay! OR a simple research activity guide for finding information on any topic.►► Research-based Essay Step-by-Step Guide!This front and back page worksheet is a great starting point for a larger research project on any topic.Best for upper elementary and middle s
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4th - 7th
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Biography Research Project FREE
Thank you for downloading this FREE version of my Biography Research Project! As a Special Education Teacher, I always found it important to differentiate and create a lesson that will help my students reach their full potential. This project may be used for:
• Inclusion classes
• Resource classes
• Self-Contained classes
• General Ed classes
• Meeting individual learning needs
• Meeting individual learning interests
• Grades 2-6
• President’s Day
• Black History Month
• Women’s History Month
•
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer
This page works as a prewriting organizer for argumentative or opinion writing in upper elementary through high school writing classes. Students will plan their writing using this document by stating their topic or guiding question, giving an opinion, supporting the opinion or argument with relevant facts and details, and finally wrapping it all up with a concluding statement.
This is ideal for all students, but may be especially appealing to students with special needs who prefer the structur
Finding Credible Sources PowerPoint
This 12-page presentation takes students through the process of finding credible sources starting from the definition and ending with a practice activity. Last slide includes a graphic to help students ask questions about sources as they research.
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6th - 12th
Research Source Sheet
For years I watched students struggle with the concept of research. There was a disconnect between what I expected and what they wanted. I expected them to conduct research with their paper in mind, building their citations as they go. They want to get the project done quickly and easily. This resource meets both expectations!This freebie asks students to build their source's citation on the front page, helping them record important information in the proper order. The backside asks them to summ
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6th - 12th
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DIGITAL Graphic Organizer for Research/Inquiry Project
These templates will help your students organize information for research/inquiry project and keep track of multiple sources. Students have used these for research essays, TED Talk presentations, Inquiry projects, podcasts, etc. This is a digital resource and ready to assign via Google Classroom. Includes marginal notes for students with reminders and some instructions, but students may require additional guidance depending on age group. I have used this with 4th and 5th graders but can be used
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4th - 12th
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Comparing Primary and Secondary Sources
Definitions and Examples of both Primary and Secondary Sources.
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4th - 6th
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Research Paper Outline Guide for Students
This is a two-page outline for students to fill in when working to organize a research paper. It is designed based on students having a minimum of three supporting points as well as a section that acknowledges the opposing side to their arguments (a concession/refutation section). This outline allows students to easily organize their ideas in preparation for writing. Before completing this outline guide, students should have completed at least some research in order to include sources. Stude
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Research Paper Graphic Organizer
Use this Graphic Organizer to guide students with the structure of their research papers. Can be used independently or in conjunction with the How to Complete a Research Paper PowerPoint for sale in my TPT store.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
NGSS MS-LS1-3 Human Body Systems Writing Assignment and Rubric
This two-week writing assignment is aligned with Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core ELA/Literacy Standards. My students really enjoyed researching for this project because they chose to focus on a disease that affected someone close to them. It was great for them to see how the systems are connected. They found that disease, illness and injury are not confined to one system.
I included the calendar I used in my classroom but left the dates blank so you can personalize it for
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5th - 8th
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Annotated Bibliography Handout for Students
Annotated Bibliography Handout for Students Support your students as they begin learning how to generate an annotated bibliography using the MLA format. Save time and send your expectations home on paper as well as upload to your learning management system so there is no question about how to complete an annotated bibliography. *****************************************************************************Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Pu
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6th - 9th
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Career Exploration Research Project
This research project includes an overview of what the students will complete, a full list of career options, details to include in each paragraph, and a rubric for the entire project. This project is to encourage the students to start researching what they may want to do when they grow up and what path they need to take to reach their goal.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Research Paper Outline
This document will help your students outline their research paper and give them reminders of paragraph structures.
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4th - 8th
Persuasive Essay: Body Paragraph Outline
This graphic organizer will help students create an outline for a 6 paragraph persuasive essay (while its set up for a persuasive essay, the outline can be adapted for many, many different uses).
Set up of the outline includes:
3 regular body paragraphs with spaces for a topic sentence, evidence #1, a connecting sentence, evidence #2 and a conclusion sentence.
The fourth paragraph is labeled as "opposing views" where students are to specifically address the opposing side and defend their opin
Grades:
7th - 12th
CRAAP Criteria Checklist
This graphic organizer is perfect for students to use when finding sources for expository, research, persuasive or argumentative writing pieces. It helps them break down the source, according to the CRAAP criteria, to determine if it's a credible source to use in their writing. It helps you teach, and the student's reach, CCSS Anchor Standard for Writing 8, "Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the
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6th - 12th
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1st Research Paper Outline 6-12
This outline guides students how to write a 5 paragraph research paper SENTENCE-BY-SENTENCE, making it MUCH more manageable for students who are overwhelmed by the idea of a research paper.
This is a tool you can use from grades 6-12.
(GREAT for special education!!)
Includes:
*Sentence-by-sentence outline for a 5 paragraph research paper
*Introduction to MLA format
*Customizable
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6th - 12th
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Argument Writing Graphic Organizer: CREED, Scaffolds, and More
When students are given the freedom to choose a topic to analyze or argue, they are virtually always more successful. That is how this resource begins: students choose from a list of current controversial issues (or decide their own with teacher approval), and then enter the intricate process of argument. An acronym I've created, CREED, propels the students forward: Claim, Reasons, Evidence, Explain (relevance and importance), Discuss (counter-claim and rebuttal).
The CREED graphic organizer f
Grades:
6th - 10th
Prove It: Text Based Evidence Sentence Starters FREEBIE
Check out this quick and easy FREEBIE :) If you like this product, check out others in my store!© EDUCATION CHIC
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4th - 7th
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How to Create an Annotated Bibliography
Help students better understand the steps and procedures for annotating a source. Perfect intro lesson for an annotated bibliography. Works great in the context of a research paper or National History Day.
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6th - 12th
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TBEAR- Method for Writing Essays
This is a three-page resource that teaches the TBEAR method of writing a body paragraph in an essay. TBEAR stands for topic sentence, background information. evidence, analysis, and return to the thesis.This resource contains one page that explains the process, one page which is an example of how to do this with an actual essay, and the last page is a practice page to have students fill out to practice this method.You can use it with any article that you want to so it will fit with any reading y
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Research Paper: Choosing/Developing Topic and Working Thesis Form
Free: A Persuasive Essay Research Paper Topic Form for developing a topic and constructing a working thesis statement.
I use this form with my 8th grade Language Arts classes to help them choose a topic and plan out their arguments to persuade the reader. The end result is a working thesis statement for the persuasive research paper.
Ann Marie Smith @ Innovative Connections
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7th - 11th
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