Standard 6: Research Students will engage in inquiry to acquire, refine, and communicate accurate information.

2.6.R.1 Students will create their own questions to find information on their topic.

Student Actions

Teacher Actions

• Students create their own questions to discover facts on a certain topic.

• Teachers create a list of topics from students’ interests.

• Teachers model how to generate questions about a topic for research. 

Recommendations

Key Terms & Related Objectives

When students struggle to come up with a topic, teachers can…

• use a think-aloud to demonstrate how to create a topic from something that interests them.

When students can’t think of questions about a topic, the teacher can…

• use a KWL chart to help generate questions.

• Topic: the subject of an entire paragraph or text selection.

• 2.6.W.1 Ask questions about topics of interest