Standard 6:  Research

Students will engage in inquiry to acquire, refine, and share knowledge.

WRITING: Students will summarize and paraphrase, integrate evidence, and cite sources to create reports, projects, papers, texts, and presentations for multiple purposes.

Understanding

Objectives

Approaching

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 Students will generate topics of interest and decide if a friend, teacher, or expert can answer their questions with guidance and support.

*Once students demonstrate an understanding of an objective, consider a deeper acquisition of those skills.

Developing

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 Students frequently generate topics of interest and decide if a friend, teacher, or expert can answer their questions with guidance and support

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Students are learning to generate topics of interest and decide if a friend, teacher, or expert can answer their questions with full guidance and support.

Instructional Guidance

Developing

• Working in small groups or with one child, model how to generate topics of interest, give students opportunities to generate topics of interest, and ask questions and use think alouds to scaffold the discussion about who the experts for the topics would be. 

Approaching

• Working in small groups, generate topics of interest then helps students decide who the expert for the topic would be by asking questions to scaffold discussion.

Understanding

• As a whole group, develop a list of questions and work together to decide where you could look to find the information or who would best answer the question.

Deeper Acquisition

• Give students opportunities to generate questions and choose an expert, then allow students to ask the expert and report back to the class. Students may need guidance and support when asking the questions and reporting answers to class.