• Students answer questions and generate their own questions about a topic.

• Students use multiple sources (e.g., visual and text reference sources, electronic resources, and/or interviews) to answer self-generated questions  and gather information on a topic. 

• Teachers model how to generate questions on a topic.

• Teachers model how to use questions to find information on a topic.  

• Teachers model how to use multiple sources to find answers to questions.

• Teachers instruct students on what to enter in an online search engine to find appropriate resources.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to use questions to find information on their topic.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to practice forming questions and provide feedback. 

When students have trouble forming questions, teachers can…

• model a think-aloud from anchor texts to demonstrate forming questions.  

• provide students with question stems to facilitate thinking.  

When students have difficulty synthesizing information from multiple sources, teachers can...

• model how to organize and sort information by asking questions like:

• Is this new information or did I read about this in another source?

• How is this information similar or different from what I have already read?  

• provide graphic organizers.  

When students have difficulty finding appropriate sources, teachers can...

• provide an organized set of sources for the students (e.g., padlets, lists of links, copies of documents, etc.)

• 4.6.W.1: Generate a research question 

• 4.7.R: Multimodal Literacies