Do your students need to learn the latest MLA style (8th edition)? This handy foldable flip book (NO cutting involved) is an excellent tool for your students to use while researching and citing sources.
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
It goes over t
This document contains two pages of fill-in-the-blanks notes for students and a teacher guide containing answers that are designed to accompany my Evaluating Websites PowerPoint: A Tool for Internet Research (available for purchase in my Product Listings). The PowerPoint/notes combination provides m
Are you looking for a simple bibliographical format for your middle-grade students and beyond. Well, here is one which your students shouldn't have too much difficulty following. It only includes the formats for the following entries: one author and two author books, CD-Roms and DVD's, encycopedia
This is a quick cheat sheet for citing online references in MLA and APA formatting.
Students can use the sheets as a reference to follow the steps to create their citations.
I used these for my high school level special education class to accompany a "Fake"book research project.
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1/2 sheet handout on how to use parenthetic citation (adding quotes to a research paper). The handout describes the format of an MLA citation/quote, what to include in the citation, and a detailed example.
6 page Thanksgiving internet/library scavenger hunt. Includes reproducible worksheets and web resource links sheet. Also includes an answer key. Bonus poetry activity for students who finish quickly.
A "How To" Hand-out for students on making a MLA format Works Cited Page. Includes directions and examples of website, dictionary and interview citations.
This worksheet allows students to take work on their general paper topics and turn them into fleshed out thesis statements that will help them search for better terms in appropriate databases.
This is particularly recommended for freshman classes who may not have previously had much experience with
This guide uses 5 steps to assist students in creating a bibliography. The steps include: Creating an Account & Project; Citations; Annotated Bibliography; Linking Citations to Notecards; Generating an Outline
In Word format so that specific directions can be replaced.
This is a quick guide to help teachers navigate the basics of Destiny Quest Online Public Access Catalog. It can be used by library media specialists to help teacher know how to utilize the system. This could also be a great tech tip sheet for middle and high school students.
This file is written for the students to use directly. The file includes a total of 6 pages of writing a paper – start to finish. This packet is reproducible and made for students to use (I copy mine onto colored paper, so my students can always find it).
Topics include:
• Notecards
• Organizing
This is a short reciprocal teaching activity I use when my students have a few sections of notes. I use it because it aids in increasing their reading comprehension and reading for a purpose. Our school has low test scores on those two areas, so I figure that I can work on my content and have them c
Worksheet designed to train students in critical analysis of websites.
Information Literacy is essential for students’ learning.
Students must be able to sort through the great volume of websites available. This worksheet assist students to question the purpose, authenticity and relevance of search
A quick guide to assist your students in using NoodleTools to organize their research citations and print a formatted MLA Works Cited page. Simple steps take students from login, to entering sources, to printing and saving a Works Cited page. Steps to start creating notecards are also included, fo
More and more genealogical information is being made available online. A lot of it is free. This is a list of basic free online resources for use in Genealogy and U.S. History modules. This is suitable for grades 9-12, higher education, adult education, and homeschooling, although with assistance yo
This is an organizer I designed for my class when we were doing research. Students needed a good place to write down and organizer info as they gathered it. I also have one for using a website as a source.
This is an organizer I designed for my class when we were doing research. Students needed a good place to write down and organizer info as they gathered it. I also have one for using a website as a source.
Great companion to the Historical Fiction PowerPoint. Students are encouraged to check out and read books within this genre. Students then record information that will help them identify the various parts of the setting, plot and characterization that are historical in nature. Students will also h
The Barbarian's Creative Library Store brings you a student guide, a 20 page booklet about referencing and creating bibliographies. It covers two referencing systems in depth - Harvard (Author, Date) and Numeric (Footnotes) and also a quick guide to MHRA.
The booklet can be printed out in A5 or A4
This set of reference sheets lists Dewey Decimal topics by ones. (400, 401, 402, etc.)
This can sometimes be a very helpful way to research a topic! (Please note that some numbers are still reserved for future use and thus are intentionally "blank.")
The Curious Researcher, by Dr. Bruce Ballenger, is a college-level textbook that walks students through the process of writing a research paper. It's an excellent text and also useful with older middle schoolers or high schoolers (although some of the illustrations are a bit grown-up for the younge