Building Research Skills in K-3
Author-educator Melissa Stewart introduces scaffolded visual, information, and
digital literacy activities to help K-3 students develop the observational,
inquiry, and critical thinking skills required to evaluate print and digital
resources for nonfiction reports. Supports Common Core RIT Standards 6 and 7
and Writing Standards 7 and 8.
The content presented in this two-hour session is summarized in two sets of
blog posts. In the first part of the session, I discuss ground-breaking work being
done at Teacher’s College at Columbia University, showing the most effective
way to introduce nonfiction writing and research to early-elementary students. These
posts provide an overview of TC thinking and include related activities that
I’ve developed to reinforce the concepts.
the second part of the presentation, I provide ideas for complimentary
activities to help students learn skills need for research, without actually
doing research. These include visual literacy, information literacy, and
digital literacy.
Introduction
Visual Thinking with Read Alouds
http://celebratescience.blogspot.com/2016/02/behind-books-getting-ready-to-research_24.html
suggestions for wordless picture book read alouds
Teaching Strategies Method
Content-Area Information
Design Affects Our Thoughts
http://celebratescience.blogspot.com/2016/03/behind-books-getting-ready-to-research_16.html
Tricks for Evaluating Websites
http://celebratescience.blogspot.com/2016/03/behind-books-getting-ready-to-research-6.html
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One Response
What a resource! As I ate lunch I went through each of these posts. Thank you!