Lumen Learning
Lumen: Critical Reading: Identifying Thesis Statements
This lesson focuses on identifying thesis statements including explicit and implicit thesis statements, "How to Identify the Thesis Statement" (video), topic sentences, paragraph parts graphic, and a self-check activity.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Finding Evidence
This instructional activity focuses on finding evidence to support your thesis, how to incorporate your findings into your own work, and how to effectively quote, paraphrase, and summarize your information. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.9,...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Creating Good Interview and Survey Questions
This entry focuses on writing good interview and survey questions when conducting primary research. It warns againgst questions that are bias, wordy, double-barreled, and unrelated and provides examples of each.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Academic Argument: Argumentative Thesis Statements
This lesson focuses on argumentative thesis statements and on recognizing an arguable thesis.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Research Process: Conclusion to Research Process
This article focuses on the real purpose of research, to learn about the subject of the investigation as much as possible and then form those theories, opinions, and arguments on the basis of this newly found knowledge and understanding...
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site: Structuring Your Individual Arguments
A diagram is provided to help students organize an argument. Assertions, sub-assertions, evidence, and counterarguments are included. Click on page 2 at the bottom to see the functions of the above and page 3 to for a practice activity....
CPALMS
Cpalms: Lafs.1112.rst.1.3: Follow Precisely a Complex Multistep Procedure
Find a collection of standards-aligned teacher and student resources where students follow procedural text.
Other
Learning Design Collaborative: Cer: Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning
Students write a scientific claim that is backed up by evidence and supported by scientific reasoning. Base your answer on your reading of a data table.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Critical Reading: Supporting Claims
This instructional activity focuses on supporting claims including the distinction between main ideas and supporting details, relationship between purpose and supporting details, sufficient and related support, and support and...
Other
Career Foundry: How to Conduct User Experience Research Like a Professional
Find out about user experience research using these data collection tips.
Other
Prezi: Implicit and Explicit Questions
This Prezi provides Implicit and Explicit questions and practice activities.
TES Global
Blendspace: Writing Thesis Statements Effectively
A twelve-part learning module with links to texts and websites to use while learning how to write a strong and effective thesis statement.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Issues With Conclusions
This lesson goes over common issues in conclusions.