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📖 4th Grade · ELAW.4.7Unit 6: Informative / research writing

Research questions

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🎯 Objective: Students conduct short research to build knowledge.

Lesson outline

  1. Choose a topic.
  2. Write research questions.
  3. Find two sources.
  4. Exit: two sources.

Lesson 1 of 6 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.4.7

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 4 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Introduce a topic, group information, develop with facts and quotations, link ideas and conclude

✅ 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 4th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Informative / research writing”

  1. Research questions
  2. Notes and sources
  3. Organizing sections
  4. Developing the topic
  5. Linking words and conclusion
  6. Presenting research

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