Grade 4: Author Website Project
Author Word Clouds are created with a digital word cloud application. This project includes researching an author of the student's choice, using the author's official website as the source for information. Students search for biographical facts as well as details about the authors' books. They apply highlighting strategies and emerging note taking skills to produce information with which to create their designs.
First, students explore a variety of author websites, using the links on this form:
Author Preferences Form
Next, students fill out the form, identifying their choices. Once they are assigned an author, the research begins!
Highlighting Facts
Using a color-coded key, students highlight facts about the author.
Using a color-coded key, students highlight facts about the author.
Taking Notes
Students take notes from their highlighted text, using their own words whenever possible to avoid plagiarizing.
Students take notes from their highlighted text, using their own words whenever possible to avoid plagiarizing.
