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Interactive Research Pages K-2
Interactive Research Pages support K-2 students’ development of using digital tools to research a variety of grade appropriate interdisciplinary topics. Students will use text features like table of contents, illustrations, captions, glossaries, etc to research different topics. Each Interactive Research Page provides informational text to help students answer a question and prepare to present the information by locating and citing facts and relevant details. New vocabulary words are presented and used within the text. The informational text is written with K-2 students as the audience and is narrated to assist emergent readers.
The Interactive Research Pages can be used individually or as a set of multiple research sources. Teachers can implement the Interactive Research Pages in a variety of ways to connect ELA skills to other content areas. Lesson plans using the Interactive Research Pages can also be found on CPALMS to support classroom implementation.
Click here to access related lesson plans for interactive research pages.
Florida students in kindergarten to twelfth grade study ‘American Civics and Government’ in all public schools across the state. This collection provides resources and information to families how they can support Florida’s K-12 civics and government education initiative at home.
View the video and then check out the Civics Family Guide resources at each grade level which provides some ideas and activities to support civics education when at home, out and about, and in the community. The activities provided align to the civics learning benchmarks for each standard at each grade level.
Interactive Research Lesson Plans
Interactive Research Pages support K-2 students in independently researching interdisciplinary topics. The lesson resources which incorporate the Interactive Research Pages provide teachers support in implementing the digital research pages in the classroom. Each lesson is integrated, starting with a stacked set of ELA benchmarks that incorporates content benchmarks from other disciplines.
Lessons merge the use of informational texts, text features, academic vocabulary, and finding relevant details while participating in research to gather information to answer a question about a content-rich topic.
Teachers can implement the Interactive Research Pages in a variety of ways to connect ELA skills to other content areas and can take inspiration from the lesson resources provided by CPALMS.
Interactive Research Pages K-2
Interactive Research Pages support K-2 students’ development of using digital tools to research a variety of grade appropriate interdisciplinary topics. Students will use text features like table of contents, illustrations, captions, glossaries, etc to research different topics. Each Interactive Research Page provides informational text to help students answer a question and prepare to present the information by locating and citing facts and relevant details. New vocabulary words are presented and used within the text. The informational text is written with K-2 students as the audience and is narrated to assist emergent readers.
The Interactive Research Pages can be used individually or as a set of multiple research sources. Teachers can implement the Interactive Research Pages in a variety of ways to connect ELA skills to other content areas. Lesson plans using the Interactive Research Pages can also be found on CPALMS to support classroom implementation.
Click here to access related lesson plans for interactive research pages.
Florida students in kindergarten to twelfth grade study ‘American Civics and Government’ in all public schools across the state. This collection provides resources and information to families how they can support Florida’s K-12 civics and government education initiative at home.
View the video and then check out the Civics Family Guide resources at each grade level which provides some ideas and activities to support civics education when at home, out and about, and in the community. The activities provided align to the civics learning benchmarks for each standard at each grade level.
Interactive Research Lesson Plans
Interactive Research Pages support K-2 students in independently researching interdisciplinary topics. The lesson resources which incorporate the Interactive Research Pages provide teachers support in implementing the digital research pages in the classroom. Each lesson is integrated, starting with a stacked set of ELA benchmarks that incorporates content benchmarks from other disciplines.
Lessons merge the use of informational texts, text features, academic vocabulary, and finding relevant details while participating in research to gather information to answer a question about a content-rich topic.
Teachers can implement the Interactive Research Pages in a variety of ways to connect ELA skills to other content areas and can take inspiration from the lesson resources provided by CPALMS.
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