ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: I Chart
A printable inquiry chart designed to help students ask questions and collect information from various texts when conducting research on any topic. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: I Search Chart
A printable inquiry search graphic organizer to help students organize questions and sub questions while working through the research process. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching ideas and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature
New ways of thinking about text, collaboration with group members, and presentation skills are all developed with this lesson which could be applied to almost any novel read in class. Includes student handouts, an online interactive, and...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: As Far as the Eye Can See
View a variety of television advertisements analyzing visual and verbal features and how these are combined to communicate ideas. Write a coherent essay which expresses and argues a viewpoint about a chosen marketing strategy, linking...
Other
Univ. Of Washington: How to Make an Outline [Pdf]
Information on how to make an outline. Provides a sample.
Other
University of Tampere: General Notes on Speech Preparation
A general, but very informative website on all types of speeches. It runs the reader through the process of finding and choosing a topic to the delivery of the speech.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Paraphrasing
Improve understanding of expository materials by getting the main ideas through paraphrasing. The paraphrasing strategy helps young scholars recall the main ideas and specific facts of materials they read. There are three steps for...
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Writing the Body of a Research Paper
An excellent tip sheet on how to write and create the bulk of a research paper: the body includes in-depth information, examples, as well as links to earlier steps in the process such as thesis statements, notecards, outline,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Questions: A Focus for Planning, Researching, and Writing
This Sophia video lesson introduces how to develop good questions for a research paper. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research projects. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 standards are addressed in...
Leaf Group
E How: How to Write a Talking Points Paper
This article by Byron Walsh focuses on writing a talking points paper for a public speaker which consists of researched, accurate information provided in bulleted lists with follow up sentences on specific topics.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Note Taking Techniques
A five-slide presentation explaining techniques writers can use to take effective notes while gathering information for a research project. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Speaking and Listening Progress [Pdf]
This two-page printable worksheet is designed for classroom use by the teacher for evaluating and tracking progress in speaking and listening skills and student engagement in discussions. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss, SL.9-10.6 Adapt to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Expository Speeches
This lesson is a fun way to practice the elaboration tools needed to back up answers. Students will need to speak about a random topic for one minute without time to prepare. This lesson helps students practice their speaking skills,...
Brown University
Brown University: Debates
Use this resource to learn how to engage in collaborative discourse and argumentation enhances student's conceptual understandings and refines their reasoning abilities. Be sure to click on the links to other resources.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Designing Effective Poster Presentations
Contains plans for six or seven lessons that teach students to create and present effective poster presentations. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Brainstorming Research Questions
An excellent tip sheet for using brainstorming techniques for writing research papers. It also gives great examples of factual and interpretive questions. It also provides links to very helpful tip sheets with examples and a worksheet...
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Selecting a Research Topic
A good resource which explains and outlines a student's choices when confronted with choosing a research topic. Includes links to an overview, focusing your topic, and more.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Introducing Your Speech
Follow these do's and don'ts of writing an effective introduction to a speech that will grab your audience's attention and state your central idea. Use the arrows to move through the information.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: The Writing Process: Generate Ideas and Questions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies to help you generate questions and ideas about a topic.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Learning How to Speak Publicly
This site provides a variety of ways for people learn how to speak publicly and the best practices in preparing and presenting speeches. SL.9-10.4 Presentation
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Contextual Factors to Consider
This lesson focuses on contextual factors to consider when analyzing your audience including physical contexts, values, beliefs, attitudes, and needs, audience opinion of you and your topic, and audience knowledge of your topic.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Steps of Preparing a Speech
This lesson focuses on the steps for preparing a speech including choose a topic, analyze the audience, gather materials and evidence, develop a thesis, support ideas, organize and outline the speech, draft the speech, prepare to...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Finding and Selecting a Topic
This activity focuses on selecting a speech topic including the importance of choosing a good topic by considering your areas of expertise and areas of interest, brainstorming, tips for choosing a topic, and narrowing the topic to fit...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Gathering Evidence: An Overview
This lesson focuses on the importance of gathering information that provides evidence for your topic that is credible, current, and relevant. It also discusses how to find and evaluate sources. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss