The document provides guidance and resources for students on researching and writing an essay. It includes a checklist, rubric, vocabulary list, note-taking template, and information on finding the main idea, citing sources, and using research in an essay. Students are instructed to watch videos on main idea and citing sources, and provided with guidance on how to understand text, take notes, cite sources using EasyBib, and give credit to photo sources.

1. What you will find in your
folder:
1.Performance Task Guidelines with Checklist
2. Rubric
3. Word Bank of Vocabulary
4.C-Notes Template with Guiding Questions
5. Storyboard
Welcome to your
Product Group!

2. Using Research
Finding Main
Idea & Citing
Sources

3. Words about Main
Idea
essay
specific
topic
detail
evidence
skim
conclusion
thesis statement

4. Brainpop
Let’s watch a video about Main
Idea.
http://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/mainidea

5. What Did We Learn?
What is the difference between
a topic and a main idea?
What is the difference between
a main idea and details?
How can we find the main idea
in a passage?

6. Structure in Research
Articles
Journalists often use an
inverted pyramid to
organize the ideas in
their articles by
importance.
Main ideas go at the top
of the pyramid, followed
by a few interesting
details in the middle,
and some related facts
towards the bottom.

7. Finding Main Idea: Let’s
Practice

8. How to Use Research
1. Read and understand the passage.
2. Understand what the passage is
saying about the topic.
3. Look for answers to guiding
questions in the passage.
4. Take notes about what you read.

9. How to Use Research
1. Read and understand the passage.
A. Note difficult words or words you
don’t understand.
B. Re-read to look for meaning.
C. Use context clues to try to
understand difficult words
D. What other strategies can you use if
you don’t understand a word?

10. How to Use Research
2. Understand what the passage is
saying about the topic.
A. What is the article about?
B. What message is the author trying
to get across?
C. What words or ideas are stressed?
D. What important details does the
article cover?

11. How to Use Research
3. Look for answers to guiding
questions in the passage.
A. Read the guiding question you are
trying to answer.
B. Put 1 finger on the question.
C. Using your other finger, read each
sentence in the passage.
D. Ask yourself if the passage answers
the question.

12. How to Use Research
4. Take notes about what you read.
A. If you find answers in the passage,
write down the main idea and
keywords/ details in your notes.
B. Write notes in your own words, if
possible, or at least in bullet-form,
so you are not copying whole
sentences.

13. Taking Notes

14. Words About Citing
Sources
bibliography
source
citation
easybib
author
editor
contributor
date accessed
date published

15. Brainpop
Let’s watch a video about Citing
Sources.
http://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/citingsou

16. How to Cite Sources
• Build your bibliography by keeping
a log.
• Go to EasyBib.com
• Sign-up for EasyBib account
• Choose the type of source.
• Input information about your
source.
• Save your citation list.
• Paste your citation list into your

17. How to Cite Sources
http://easybib.com/
makes it easy!

18. How to Cite Sources

19. How to Cite Sources

20. How to Cite Sources

21. How to Cite Sources

22. How to Cite Photos
You must give credit to your
photo sources.
Follow Mr. Sturgeon’s
instructions about finding and
saving photos.
Easybib will also help you create
your list of photo credits.

23. How to Cite Photos

24. How to Cite Photos