Non Fiction Research Reports updated.

Almost 2 years ago, wow has it really been that long? Ok let me get back on track. Almost 2 years ago I posted about my 1st grade students animal research reports. I have not changed much, and it works really well for my kids. 

However, I am now also teaching writing to a group of 2nd and 3rd grade students and I can't bring myself to do another round of animal research reports. Especially since these kids have done them for the past 2 to 3 years already. 

Soooooooo I made an executive decision. I decided to give my kids the option to do either research on a country or a biography. I am so glad I did because I have learned so much about how I want to do this next year. LOL

I was so excited when I saw that Pebble Go has a Biographies section. Only wish they had a section about countries too.

Like my students animal research reports I had to create a graphic organizer for my kids. However I didn't want it to look so little kid-ish. This meant something new...

I had half the work done for me because Kristen from Ladybug's Teacher Files, created a biography notes graphic organizer. It is fabulous, super cute and free! So check her out.

That left me with creating a graphic organizer for my students who had chosen countries to research. After some drama from myself I came up with this and I am giving it to you for free. :)

I didn't create writing paper for my older kids because we will type up our reports. I will also have them print pictures instead. We will use the same pages as the 1st graders to cite references, and list our table of contents.

  

Before I go I wanted to share that because I had lots of comments about others not being able to download the 1st grade documents from Scribd I uploaded them to Google Docs. Click on the links below to download them from here.

1st grade graphic organizer

1st grade writing paper 

I'll make sure to come back and post a picture of the completed reports. How you can find some of this useful.

Enjoy!