Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing Workshop: Research Paper

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A site for both students and teachers to explore the writing of a research paper. Find teacher resources, student interactive mini-lessons, and a review of types of research resources.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Revising

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on revising your drafts to create your final paper. It includes a revision checklist, getting feedback from someone you trust, responding and redrafting, revising and proofreading, and how to write the final copy.
Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Essay Writing Rubrics

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of essay assessment rubrics are provide on this learning module. Several rubrics for narrative essays, persuasive essays, and research papers are provided on this site.
Handout
Yale University

Yale New Haven: Writing in the Intermediate Grades

For Students 9th - 10th
A great site from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute by teachers helping to guide students through the process of writing papers. It explains prewriting strategies, organization, and each draft of a paper.
Activity
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing (I Just Got Assigned a Paper. Now What?)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Work through the writing process by following these ten easy steps. The site also provides tips on brainstorming to generate ideas and using Venn diagrams to organize thoughts.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Ocean Research Project

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Research paper writing is a lofty goal for kindergarten students, but this lesson will expose them to the process without being overwhelming. Students will divide into teams to learn about ocean creatures and then write a research paper...
Handout
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Writing the Body of a Research Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent tip sheet on how to write and create the bulk of a research paper: the body includes in-depth information, examples, as well as links to earlier steps in the process such as thesis statements, notecards, outline,...
Interactive
Other

Umuc: Secrets of My Research Success

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This 35-minute interactive tutorial models the research process via the story of Quentin, a UMUC student. It takes him through the various research process steps: understand how to locate background information on his topic by showing...
Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: K Plus (Spanish) [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
Translated into Spanish, this graphic organizer can be used by student to collect facts about a topic. Students will collect information but record the "gold standard" of facts only.