Helping Students Write The Best Research Reports Ever (Grades 4-8) [Paperback]

Lois Laase (Author), Joan Clemmons (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Scholastic Teaching Strategies

Easy Mini-lessons, Strategies, and Creative Formats to Make Research Manageable and Fun
Everything you need to teach the research process in a way that's fun and engaging. Mini-lessons are designed to take students from selecting manageable, meaningful topics, to navigating references, effective note-taking, learning to paraphrase, organizing materials, and writing research reports that really show what they've learned. Includes a chapter on 10 creative projects.

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About the Author

Joan Clemmons is a fifth-grade teacher at Rolling Valley Elementary School in Fairfax County, Virginia. She was a finalist for Teacher of the Year in Fairfax County. She is a consultant and workshop leader, giving presentations in school districts nationwide. She is co-author with Lois Laase of Portfolios in the Classroom and Language Arts Mini-Lessons. (both are Professional Books)

Lois Laase has extensive experience as a classroom teacher having taught in several states, as well as in International School in Norway, Italy, and Brazil. Through her position as Community Liaison Officer at the American Embassies in Australia and Brazil she did educational counseling. Lois is an educational writer. She has authored Portfolios in the Classroom and Language Arts Mini-Lessons for Scholastic Teaching Resources. She is a contributing editor for Instructor magazine, and has also published integrated language arts thematic units, and a literature-based math series. She is listed in Who's Who in American Education. Lois shares her expertise on language arts and assessment through staff development workshops, through her classes at Adams State College, and through her presentations at local, state, and national conferences. She and her husband are presently living in Grand Junction, Colorado where they are able to enjoy the great outdoors.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590963864
• ISBN-13: 978-0590963862
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #911,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for kids!, April 10, 2003

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Beverly Coney Heirich (Grand Junction, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Helping Students Write The Best Research Reports Ever (Grades 4-8) (Paperback)

As a college English teacher, I have never taught grades 4-8, the target group for this book. I discovered it by accident, and yet, even before finishing chapter three, I had decided to incorporate "Helping Students Write the Best Research Reports EVER!" as a supplementary text in all of my college research, speech, and writing classes.

Oh! how I wish every student I've ever taught could have had the benefit of learning research writing from Lois Laase and Joan
Clemmons. Most young people come to college without a clue to the excitement of discovery inherent in any research project.

The best way to learn anything is to teach it. Teaching college students how to teach research to children while learning research techniques from college textbooks is a wonderful way to introduce them to the wonderment and fascination of information-gathering.

So if you are a teacher of writing or speech at any level from grade school through college, you will find this book an astonishing treasure trove of ideas and specific lesson plans to help students begin a journey that will benefit them for the rest of their lives.

I can hardly wait for my fall writing, research, & speech classes to begin so that I can incorporate this book into my curriculum.

By the way, if you are a home-schooling parent, this book will help you spark enthusiasm for learning in ways you've never even thought of. It is a teaching and learning treasure.