Not every research activity will need to encompass all steps and end in a final project. There are simple ways to reinforce the individual skills within your daily curriculum. For suggestions on integrating preparationg and presentation skills into your lessons, check out these mini-activities.
Demonstrate how beginning sentences with words like while, as, after, although, despite, if, before, because, etc. it helps build a richer sentence.
Give students 5 minutes to research a controversial topic and write a short pro or con statement using one piece of evidence from a source. Demonstrate how to correctly integrate source material into writing, including student response and in-text citations.
Get students accustomed to presenting to an audience by playing public speaking games often. Try these suggestions from Write Out Loud.