Utah Education Network
Uen: What Makes the Writer Write?
This lesson engages students in reading and research related to the Victorian Era. Students will analyze this time period's influence on the writings of Charles Dickens. Then students will analyze how today's authors incorporate social...
LD Online
Ld Online: Teaching Expressive Writing to Ld Students
Author provides a research-based instructional essay on three components that consistently led to improved outcomes: adhering to a basic framework, teaching critical steps in the writing process, and providing feedback.
LD Online
Ld Online: Strategies for Composition in the Writing Process
An extensive discourse on strategies to teach writing skills to learning disabled children. Authors have developed an approach known as self-regulated strategy development (SRSD). In this paper they elaborate on the research they...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Discovering a Passion for Poetry W/ Langston Hughes
After analyzing examples of contemporary youth poetry as well as the poetry of Langston Hughes, learners will use the Internet to conduct research on how events in the world have shaped Hughes' work. They will cite specific examples that...
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University of Guelph: l.m. Montgomery Research Centre: Writing a Life [Pdf]
"Writing A Life: L.M. Montgomery" by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston is a short, well-written biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery's life that is available as a free download from this site.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Independent Author Study Evaluation
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an author study evaluation rubric. Students will be assessed on oral communication skills, author information, and a Venn Diagram.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Critical Reading Towards Critical Writing
Aimed particularly towards writing about non-fiction, this site describes ways to think about what you read so you can write more clearly. Focuses on analyzing the "ways of thinking" that an author uses so you can evaluate the validity...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Sample Author Study
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an exemplar of the expectations for an independent class project. Each student must study an author and meet the criteria listed on the page.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Gossip to Learn: A Juicy Approach to Research
Though teachers might use this student-centered, technology-based, one or two-day research project to introduce any author, English 12 teachers may wish to use the lesson to jump-start a unit on British literature from the Romantic...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating Question and Answer Books Through Guided Research
Contains plans for five lessons that develop research skills in primary students by having them create their own question and answer books. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Harlem Renaissance Authors
As part of a study of the Harlem Renaissance, young scholars will do research on a Harlem Renaissance author. Individually, students will use websites to gain information about the author and the author's impact in literature and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Author Study
During this lesson, young scholars will learn more about their favorite authors by researching them on the Internet and presenting to the class, school, and community. Students will see that authors are real people thereby developing an...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: An Author Study: Christopher Paul Curtis
This five-day lesson plan will introduce the students to the author of the novel as the beginning of a unit. The students will conduct research to obtain biographical information about the author and read/analyze summaries and critiques...
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Hickman Community Charter District: Informative Writing
Sample topics in informative writing for K-3rd grades and 4th-8th grades. CSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.2. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
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Robert J. Sawyer: Writing Workshops
This site features a list of columns written by Robert Sawyer. They include: Great Beginnings, Point of View, Constructing Characters, Show, Don't Tell, Description, Research, and more. W.9-10.3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3e Narratives, W.11-12.3, 3a,...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Exploring the Future of Nasa
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, 8th graders analyze two nonfiction articles and a short video that look at NASA, changes to the space shuttle program, and future possibilities in the United States space program. They...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Pets: Stuffed Animal Day
This instructional activity requires students to bring a stuffed animal to school. During the instructional activity, students will create a class graph and individually author their own nonfiction pet books after conducting research.
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New York Public Library: Homespun Heroines
Great research find! "Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction", edited by Haillie Quinn Brown, is found here, on-line. You may select any chapter or "page" through the book.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Review Redux: Literary Criticism Through Reception Moments
Literature takes on a life of its own as students take a hands-on approach to exploring A Raisin in the Sun for cultural and historical context.
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Broward Education Foundation: Project Living History [Pdf]
Inquiry research is self-directed and project-based on the grade-level curriculum. Students begin an area of inquiry research becoming a critical historian. Focusing on research writing involves reading and a digital search on Destiny...
Leaf Group
Classroom: How to Write a Research Paper Outline
This is an article focusing on gathering research information including paper requirements, citation information, and content, and then completing note cards and an outline.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analysis of Relative Values of Specific Data, Facts, and Ideas
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on analyzing and evaluating the value of the sources used for evidence in a research project.
Caro Clarke
Historical Fiction: Who Rules?
This is the fifteenth article in a series designed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on the genre of historical fiction and the role of the author. Is the author a researcher or a story-teller?
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: From Here to Narnia
This lesson will provide eighth grade Language Arts students with an inquiry-based research project based on C. S. Lewis' classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The student will determine the author's purpose in writing this...