I did a quick search for “reading” and “strategy guides” and then narrowed down the results by clicking on “inquiry based teaching”. If you are a regular user, you will know how awesome it is. If you are yet to discover this website, you are in for a treat. Source: via Carol on Pinterest Read Write Think Website If the Junior Research Hub is more than perhaps your students need, consider using the simplified Infant Research Hub with it’s three step guide to researching: This strategy can be used to differentiate instruction for each student’s needs, and can also be used as an assessment tool to measure student understanding of a given topic. I-Charts can be used with individuals, small groups, or the entire class, and are meant to strengthen reading skills and foster critical thinking. The I-Chart strategy is organized into three steps, each of which consists of activities meant to engage and aid students in evaluating a given topic: 1) Planning, 2) Interacting, and 3) Integrating/Evaluating. The Inquiry Chart (I-Chart) strategy is one that allows students to examine a topic through integrating prior knowledge on the topic with additional information found from a variety of sources. When gathering information from a collection of sources, I like the idea of this chart from READ-WRITE-THINK: Here is what an example of a finished bibliography looks like. punch in the ISBN number of a book and all the title, author, illustrator and publisher information would pop up.type in the title of a magazine and the name of the article and it would find all the information about the issue number, year and author.just paste in a web address and it would reference it for you.We were really impressed by the way in which we could: EasyBib provides a simple to use, online way of keeping a bibliography of all sites sourced. This piece of information about the height of the kangaroo, clearly came from some kind of information source: website, book, journal, magazine or paper. My creature mimics the height of the kangaroo and in fact, has been recorded at heights of up to 7 feet tall, thus propelling it to the top of the record books for largest known marsupial. They might say: The kangaroo is known as the largest marsupial, measuring over 6 feet tall. This requires them to research information about animal adaptations and use this information in their project. They are to be specific in their comparisons. Last week I shared a new site with my class: EasyBib It is accessible through the students’ Riverstone gMail accounts which allows their work to be synced through Google Docs. In our current project, students have been asked to compare the fictional creature they are creating with creatures that already exist. As I read through each section of UWCSEA Junior Research Hub, I did consider two things I would add: It has everything you would want in one spot. You can then cut and fold the card so that it becomes two-sided.I recently came across a fantastic website for research skills. The intention would be to print them out. It gives you a preview of how your card will look. If you choose to share your creation, you have the option to save to your photos, send as an email, or send to a printer. Use the buttons below the card to flip from the front of your card to the back, share your creation, or save it in the app itself. Your information is limited to 120 characters for each field. When you click in a field guided questions pop up to help you understand what kind of information they are looking for. Once that is completed, start entering your data in the assigned fields the app has for you. Insert an image of your topic by either taking a picture or importing from your camera roll. Once you have selected your category you are able to start into the project creation. The app will pose guided questions for you to answer as you move through creation. I would put some thought into this to make sure you are choosing the proper category. You can choose from Fictional character, real person, fictional or real place, object, event, or vocabulary. To get started you need to choose your topic and the category under which it belongs. This app has a lot of potential! I can see it being used across grade levels and across the curriculum. It sounded like something I would be interested in, so I downloaded it and began to play. I saw a post from about a FREE app from Read Write Think called Trading Cards.
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