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📖 3rd Grade · ELAW.3.7Unit 8: Research & informative writing

Choosing a topic and questions

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🎯 Objective: Students choose a topic and write research questions.

Lesson outline

  1. Wonder wall.
  2. Question stems: how, why, what happens if.
  3. Choose a topic.
  4. Exit: three research questions.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

W.3.7

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Conduct short research projects
  • Write informative texts with facts, definitions, details and illustrations

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Kids encyclopedia📚 All 3rd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Research & informative writing”

  1. Choosing a topic and questions
  2. Taking notes
  3. Grouping information
  4. Drafting with facts and definitions
  5. Text features and conclusion

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