Description
Research Paper Writing | Informational, Biography, and Autobiography Projects: Are you ready to make research writing meaningful, manageable, and fun for your students? This Research Writing Unit gives you everything you need to guide students step-by-step through the process of writing an engaging research paper.
From learning what research is, to gathering information, organizing facts, citing sources, and publishing final projects— this packet provides the structure, visuals, and scaffolding needed to help every writer succeed.
Whether your students are researching a famous person, animal, country, or topic of choice, this resource helps them develop critical thinking, organization, and nonfiction writing skills; all while building confidence as young researchers!
INCLUDED:
- All pages available in both color and black-and-white print options
- Digital bonus included
- Teacher and Student Grading Rubric Checklist
- Teacher suggested use of resource included
ANCHOR CHART POSTERS
- Research, Informational Writing, Biographies, Autobiographies
- Research Process (with step-by-step guide)
- Sources, Note-Taking, Citing Sources/Bibliography
- Research Questions, Plagiarism, and Paraphrasing
RESEARCH ORGANIZERS
- Research To-Do List and Weekly Planning
- Topic Brainstorming and Questioning Pages
- Fact vs. Opinion and KWL Charts
- Gathering Information & Reliable Sources Pages
- Research Process and Planning Templates
- Biography Planning & Research Questioning Pages
STUDENT WRITING PAGES
- Rough Draft, Planning, and Final Publishing Templates
- “About the Author,” “Dedicated To,” and “Works Cited” Pages
- Research Flip Book for Publishing
- Biography Teach-Go Pennants®
PERFECT FOR:
- Informational Writing Units
- Biography and Autobiography Projects
- Science or Social Studies Research Reports
- Writing Centers, Literacy Blocks, or Sub Plans
- Cross-Curricular Projects or End-of-Year Research Presentation
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Sticky Hands and Lesson Plans –
This is a great early finisher activity for my high achievers! Once you get them started, they’re off and running!
Kandra O. –
Great options to scaffold research for Biographies for many different levels of writers.
Mrs. Hubbard’s Cupboard –
My students in the autism cluster have been using this resource to explore research writing! It’s been a great introduction to research for them.
Corey S. –
I loved using this resource with my students. They were engaged during the activity, and they were able to understand the content better.
Rock Star Alley –
Super helpful when teaching my students how to write a research paper! It really broke everything down perfectly and kept things engaging.
Michelle A. –
This was a great resource to use for our writing celebration at school. The biographies turned out great!
SARA GUIMONT –
A great tool to use with my students for their biography reports.
Heather B. –
This was a great addition to our information writing unit.
Laureen M. –
This is a very clear package that has great, appealing visuals for middle school students. The students see it as useful.
Lauren H. –
Some of this information didnt apply to my students as we do not have technology at my school but they were able to ipliment this on their own at their own pace as it was very clearly written. my students enjoyed
Kimberly C. –
Very helpful resource for a student who loves to research topics of interest.
Amanda W. –
So many helpful resources in one pack – able to keep using this over the entire year!
Lea R. –
This was the perfect resource for our end of the year research projects! It kept my student’s notes organized and focused!
Laura L A. –
Good resource! My students really enjoyed using it!
Kimberly K. –
This is a such a great resource to help my 2nd graders plan out their reports. I was able to break up their research over several days using these planning and writing pages.
Amanda Albert –
Great graphic organizers for collecting a information from a variety of sources!
Marissa W. –
My students loved these templates and so did I! Takes some work out of research projects!
Christina S. –
Research has always been something that my students really struggle with since this is the first time they are having to do it. This resource has so many pages to help them with each step of the research process and it helped it go much smoother and enjoyable for my students as well as myself, I would absolutely recommend using this to help your students stay on track while supporting them along the way!
Welcome to Miss Larkin’s Classroom –
I teach third grade general education in my classroom. I will continue to use this resource in the future. The design of the resource was great.
Abby C. –
I loved that these can be applied to any kind of research!