Research Notes Organizer

Use Paraphrase or Quote before Integrate Quotations Into Sentences. Research Notes Organizer works well as the first step of a short research report on tides.

Write a research question on ocean tides and fill note cards from 3 practice sources. The directions on the page read: Read the topic. Write a research question. Then read each practice source and take notes in your own words. The sources were written for this worksheet. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade informative writing, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with research and citations. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Text evidence is a detail or exact quote from a text that proves an answer. Cite Text Evidence gives four sentence starters, such as According to the text, for 4 questions about leaf color.

Integrate Quotations Into Sentences teaches a lead-in that names the speaker, a full sentence followed by a colon and a few quoted words woven into your own sentence.

Write only the main facts in short phrases, use your own words and record the title and type of every source. Research Notes Organizer practices this with three practice sources about tides.