Plan Research With a Know, Wonder and Learned Chart

Help your child choose a topic they are curious about and find one or two kid-friendly books or websites. Fill the planner with short notes, not full sentences, then use it to write the draft on lined paper.

Fill in a know, wonder and learned chart about an animal or a place before and after research. When you do research, you look for facts about a topic. The directions on the page read: Read the model. Then, choose an animal or a place and write it as your topic. Then, fill in the chart: write what you know, what you wonder and what you learned, 3 lines each. Then, use your plan to write your draft on lined paper.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd 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 writing. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Start with something your child already wonders about, like an animal or a planet. The big question page shows how to split one big question into three smaller ones, each with a place to look for the answer, such as a library book.

A note is a few words that hold one fact, like hot melted rock is lava. A sentence tells the whole idea. The notes to sentences page has children write four notes, then turn each one into a full sentence for the report (W.3.8).

Writing down the source teaches children that facts come from somewhere they can check, such as a book or a website, and makes it easy to look again. The research report planner has a Where I found it line under every note box.

The page where children research a topic and write a paragraph has an answer key. The 6 planners have no key, since each child researches their own topic. Check that every box is filled, each note is a fact and each note answers the question.

7 printable worksheets, all free to preview. Downloads are included with a ClassWeekly free trial, and every page prints on standard 8.5 x 11 paper.

These are written for 3rd Grade students, roughly ages 8-9. Many teachers also use them a grade up for review or a grade down as an extension, so use the preview to judge the fit for a particular child.

Yes. Each one shows the Common Core code it covers on its own page, so you can check the alignment yourself rather than taking our word for it.