Practical Steps to the Research Process for High School

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These hands-on lessons for teaching the research process will help you effectively teach information skills, while implementing current national information literacy standards. Stanley offers strategies that connect standards to content area units of study, sharing dozens of successful collaboratively planned and taught research lessons. Detailed learning activities for each of the six research skills demonstrates how this process meets the needs of today's students as well as the requirements of many current educational trends and reforms-technology integration, literacy, critical thinking, collaborative instruction, and adaptations for second language learners as well as learning disabled students. The book includes guidelines for planning and preparing for research, scripted lessons with accompanying instructor directions, application and accountability procedures, and writing and technology extensions.

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"Researchers rejoice. Helping high school students learn the research process can be a challenge. [This author] simplifies the process...gives detailed instructions for each step of the research process."-American Libraries
Researchers rejoice. Helping high school students learn the research process can be a challenge. [This author] simplifies the process...gives detailed instructions for each step of the research process.-American Libraries
Stanley's personal anecdotes assure readers that her information is based on concrete experience acquired from working in a vibrant, successful library media center.-Booklist
Stanley's step-by-step approach is an invaluable 'how to' guide that will be much appreciated by high school teachers and library media specialists.-Bookwatch
"Stanley's personal anecdotes assure readers that her information is based on concrete experience acquired from working in a vibrant, successful library media center."-Booklist
"Stanley's step-by-step approach is an invaluable 'how to' guide that will be much appreciated by high school teachers and library media specialists."-Bookwatch

Author Bio

DEBORAH B. STANLEY is Library Media Teacher, Riverside Unified School District, Riverside, California, and she frequently speaks on the research process.