Animal Research Project

Nonfiction Research Sites

Dear Families, 

This week we will be starting a new project. We are going to study animals.
Each child chose their top three favorite animals and we did our best 
to pick their number one choice. Each student in our class will be assigned 
a different animal. The students' will be doing some research and writing 
a report. The step-by-step process of organizing and writing a report is more 
important at this early writing development stage than the amount 
information gathered. Each child will be setting up a research folder
with specific steps to follow. We will then create a nonfiction article along
a Quadrama about our animal. 
Here is an example of what a Quadrama looks like:

Learning Goal:

Students read to find information from a variety of reference sources, 
follow a structured writing process to complete a simple report, 
and practice basic computer operations as they research an animal and create a product.