Effective Researching

This website is designed to support researching across all content areas for middle grades. While each content area does not necessarily have it's own research standard, classes where research is a part of the curriculum might reinforce and provide consistency by using the Common Core Research & Design standard. At the bottom of each page there are lesson plans and strategies to support English Language Learners to make researching more accessible. 

This standard (identical for 7th and 8th and only slightly different for 6th) has been chunked into 4 different sections for simplicity as well as to allow teachers to pick and choose the support they need for their particular assignment.

Common Core State Standard - Writing - Standard 4 Research & Design: (CCSS: W.7.8) b. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.