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📖 8th Grade · ELAW.8.7Unit 5: Research project

Research questions

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🎯 Objective: Students generate focused research questions.

Lesson outline

  1. Questions.
  2. Narrow focus.
  3. Plan.
  4. Exit: question.

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.8.7

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 8 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Conduct research projects drawing on several sources
  • Avoid plagiarism and follow a standard citation format

✅ 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

🎯 Practice: Research projects📚 All 8th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Research project”

  1. Research questions
  2. Sources and credibility
  3. Avoiding plagiarism
  4. Writing and presenting

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