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mumsrea
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Posted: July 19 2008 at 4:46pm \| IP Logged

can someone tell me how to go about facilitating 'research" for a first grader? i know i would get books and websites etc on say, volcanoes, but then what?

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Posted: July 21 2008 at 11:18am \| IP Logged

I had my then 1st grader do some research last year. He was reading fairly well and I think they need to be able to . One example...we did a dinosaur unit and each day he had some research to do on his own. For example, I gave him a list of dinos and he had to use his resources to find their heights, what they ate, did they live on land, sea, or air. This worked really well because I knew that he would be able to easily find his answers because I looked through the books beforehand. We also had luck with easy reader nonfiction books for doing reports. Each month last year we studied a different biome and he had to report on an animal from that biome. I gave him a list of questions that he had to make sure were answered in all his reports (what do they eat, adaptations, classification, nocturnal). After a couple months it became second nature for him and he did really well. This also helped him organize his report as each question was a new paragraph.

I think starting early like this is great and I'm glad I did it. I waited with my older two and working indepently is hard for them.

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Posted: July 21 2008 at 3:22pm \| IP Logged

If I'm researching with a younger one, it's usually while they're next to me and we're off hunting on a rabbit trail. I don't require it, but we do explore and research quite frequently.

I usually google specific topics alone first. I leave them open in tabs. We read through them together. I set out a basket of reference books and picture books that coordinate with the theme being researched and let them have at it.

Sometimes, we read books together, but usually a child is quite interested and consumes all the information I give them very quickly on their own. There might be some informal narrating. It's just a natural pace, I don't force anything really.

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