❏ Demonstrates grade-level proficiency with an increasingly complex text, topic, and/or task
❏ Conduct short research projects
❏ Build knowledge about a topic, when conducting short research projects
Vocabulary
shared research – a collaborative approach to research where different researchers investigate various aspects of the topic under consideration in order to come back together to create a collaborative whole
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Step 2: Assessment
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Step 3: Lesson Instructions
Classroom Application
Students take part in research and writing projects as a class or in groups.
In the Classroom: The teacher chooses a topic from grade 2 science or social studies standards and introduces the topic to the students. Students discuss their background knowledge, and the teacher guides the students in framing an open-ended question they want to answer about the topic. Students work as a class to research the question and create a book, display, or digital resource.
At the end of the year or a unit, students think about skills they have learned and work in partners to create “how-to” books about those skills. Partners choose one skill, such as figuring out the meaning of unknown words, adding and subtracting two digit numbers, or how to answer a story problem, and create a how-to guide. How-to guides are then compiled into a class book.