ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Question and Answer Books From Genre Study to Report Writing
Contains plans for eight lessons that explore Question and Answer Books and ask students to do research in order to write their own. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the...
Georgia Department of Education
Georgia Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Mla Format
In this module, students will learn about nonfiction and the research process as it pertains to writing about nonfiction. Also students will learn MLA (Modern Language Association) Format and practice using MLA format in writing and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Animal Study From Fiction to Facts
Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask students to compare and research information about animals from fiction and nonfiction texts. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to...
Thinkport Education
Write Now: Arguing for Change
Students are presented with a scenario of bullying and are asked to write an "argument for change" as a way to get classmates to stop bullying. In preparing their argumentative piece, students are guided to examine fiction and nonfiction...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: The Research Process: Notetaking
This lesson focuses on taking notes for your research project. It explains what to included in your notes and how to write them. It offers a link to The Quality Writing Center: "Creating and Using Outlines" and Study Guides and...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: Creating and Using Outlines [Pdf]
This is the three-page PDF The Quality Writing Center: "Creating and Using Outlines." It explains and provides examples of what to do before starting the outline, working thesis, defining purpose, the types of outlines, creating the...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry Based Research
Contains plans for lessons that help young scholars explore the nonfiction genre by doing inquiry-based research on animals. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reading/writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts
Young scholars will have a whale of a good time in this instructional activity in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Fiction and Nonfiction Sort [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students look at different books, write their titles, and sort them according to whether they are fiction or nonfiction. Materials are included.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension
Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through instructional activity...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing With Scientists With the American Museum of Natural History
Follow this six-step method and you'll have a good understanding of what a good scientific research paper involves and how it is organized. There are plenty of samples for you to look at. This explanation is also very helpful for...
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...
Education.com
Education.com: 1st Grade Reading & Writing Resources
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of first grade reading and writing resources contains lesson plans and worksheets that can be used during the research process.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
Questions about weather clear up when learners use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: 10th Lit/comp
Contains learning modules on the following topics: Research and MLA Foundations, Novels and Short Stories, Poetry: the Sonnet, Shakespearean Drama, Informative and Argumentative Essays,Research and MLA Review, Narrative Nonfiction,...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Pets: Stuffed Animal Day
This lesson requires students to bring a stuffed animal to school. During the lesson, students will create a class graph and individually author their own nonfiction pet books after conducting research.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Body Paragraphs
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides information related to writing body paragraphs for argumentative essays.
EL Education
El Education: Field Guide to Insects in Western Massachusetts
This field guide was created by 2nd graders in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was part of a two-month Learning Expedition that included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research, reading from books and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring Owls
During this lesson, young scholars will visit Internet sites to research facts about owls and food chains. They will use this information to complete a picture of an owl food chain, dissect owl pellets, and write a class book about owls.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Introduction to the Dewey Decimal System
This lesson introduces the Dewey Decimal System of numbering used for arranging nonfiction books on the shelves of an elementary school library.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Exploring the Future of Nasa
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, 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...
EL Education
El Education: Access Portland: Resource for Immigrants & Refugees
This resource guide was created by students in Portland, Maine, in an "attempt to make the resources of Portland, ME more easily accessible to new refugees and immigrants." Students met with representatives from local organizations and...
EL Education
El Education: E Is for Egypt
This book was written and illustrated by sixth grade students at High Tech High Middle School in San Diego, California. As part of a three-month study of Ancient Egypt, students researched topics to feature in this children's alphabet...
EL Education
El Education: Geology for Kids
4th grade students from the Swift River Elementary School in New Salem, Massachusetts, created this field guide to local geology, featuring "Things to Know" and "Places to Visit", as part of a study of local geology and rocks and...