Description
Once students have completed their research, using this author study template, they will use it to complete their culminating activity: a biography booklet for their assigned author. While the research journal serves as a “rough draft”, the biography booklet serves as the “final draft”, just like a writer completes drafts before the final version in the writing process. The template is included for students to create a biography about their author. The students will also create a bibliography of the works of their author- including illustrating the covers of their work within the template. (See the “preview” for a peek at the biography booklet!)
Contents:
- Teacher Info Pages: This includes a sample unit outline, grading rubric, lesson plans for internet research, intro lesson, research journals, and final projects.
- Book research/ text features worksheets: Students will review other text features including a glossary, titles, headings, photos, captions, graphs/charts, and special print. They will also compare and contrast the table of contents and index.
- Internet research worksheets: These worksheets will familiarize your students with how to find credible sources on the internet for research.
- Author Cards Cards with clip art of 18 popular authors are included which you can use to assign the historical figures. You may also add up to 6 additional authors if you wish. (You could add authors from class read-aloud, etc.)
- Research Journals: The research journals will guide the students throughout their research. There is one question on each page for the students to find the answer to. Pre-written pages are included, plus blank ones to add your own questions. Full-page and half-page versions are BOTH included in this resource. Choose which version is best for your students.
- Biography Booklet Instructions Lesson plan for the student’s final project
- Parent Letter & Invitation: Keep the parents in the loop! Let them know what is going on with the unit, and invite them to see the student’s hard work. Both of these are editable.
- Final Report Pages and info: A final report page is included as well as examples and lessons for their final project.
- **BONUS! ALL PAGES in the document are included in both vivid color AND Ink Friendly Black & White for your convenience**
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tarafarah7 (verified owner) –
Wow! This is incredibly thorough! Thank you so much! I love the pages for finding credible sources, and I really appreciate you including so many amazing authors. 🙂 It’s awesome I will be able to add more authors to the blank pages so everyone can have someone different. I cannot thank you enough – this is wonderful! 🙂 Yay!
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Kelsey –
So glad you love it! Thank you, Tara! 🙂
Shabana A. –
This will be a great activity for Read Across America week
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Kim H. –
This wasn’t exactly what I was looking for but I can make it work.
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Teach Lead Inspire Repeat –
I love that the resource also includes some guidance on teaching students how to conduct effective research.
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Michelle M. –
Love that there is scaffolded ways to conduct research and dive deeper into literacy.
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Educate & Rejuvenate (verified owner) –
Thank you, Michelle!
Misty Veith –
Great resource! Helpful and useful!
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Mandy C. –
I used it for a short research project. It helped us stay organized!
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Faith D. –
I used this during our ELD rotations with my at grade level and above students. They were engaged and able to work on it mostly independently without much teacher support. They were also excited to present them when done!
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Brooke B. –
I loved this author research study and so did my students. They used it for a distant learning project. They were all very engaged and loved learning about the author they chose. Great resource that I will continue to use use for my class in the coming year.
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Cynthia W. –
Very helpful! Excellent digital resource, thanks so much!!
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Amy S. –
Excellent research focused packet on Author Studies. This packet has everything to help get the students started with their research and work through the project. I really like the choice cards to help divide up the topics easily.
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Amy S. –
Excellent research focused unit. This unit has everything to help get the students started with their research and work through the project. Having these in Google Slides format is perfect so my students can research and create on their computer both in school and at home without losing their work.
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anne.anastasia –
I love that the bundle of these units has BOTH digital and printable resources! Great author choices, too!
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anne.anastasia –
This is perfect for my ELA class on “technical writing”, which will have students doing research and research projects. Thank you so much for saving me a ton of time!!!
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Kellie E. –
Great resource.
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Teresa S. –
Great for 3rd graders to do independently!
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Jennifer B. –
This resource is set up in great way to help students complete an author study.
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Astrid M. –
The resource is easy to integrate into daily instruction and works well for whole-group, small-group, or independent writing practice.
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