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📖 7th Grade · ELAW.7.7Unit 5: Informative writing & research

Research questions

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🎯 Objective: Students conduct short research and generate follow-up questions.

Lesson outline

  1. Questions.
  2. Sources.
  3. Notes.
  4. Exit: questions.

Lesson 1 of 4 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.7.7

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 7 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Write informative texts that examine a topic
  • Conduct short research projects

✅ 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 7th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Informative writing & research”

  1. Research questions
  2. Organizing information
  3. Drafting with precise language
  4. Citations and publishing

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