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Informative/Explanatory Writing for Grades K-3
Pearce Peacock, Literacy Specialist, ADE - [email protected]
Cheryl Gall, Literacy Specialist, NWAESC - [email protected]
Deb Boerner, Reading Recovery Teacher Leader NWAESC - [email protected]
Jennifer Hampton, Literacy Specialist, WAESC - [email protected]
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Agenda
K-3 teachers will: • learn about the reciprocity of reading and writing • examine three different types of informative/explanatory writing • study the purpose, form, and structure of writing to describe, instruct and explain • utilize rubrics related to the three types of informative/explanatory writing
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Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency:
Thinking, Talking, and Writing About Reading,K-8.
Fountas and Pinnell
While reading and writing are
different processes, they are
complementary. Readers and
writers use the same sources
of information and integrate
them.
Reciprocity of Reading and Writing
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6 Reasons to Use Informational Text in the Primary Grades
1. Provides the key to success in later schooling. 2. Prepares students to handle real-life reading. 3. Appeals to readers' preferences. 4. Addresses' questions and interests. 5. Building knowledge of the natural and social world. 6. Boosts vocabulary and other kinds of literacy knowledge.
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/6-reasons-use-informational-text-primary-grades
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The Balance of Informational and Literary Texts in Kindergarten Through 5th Grade
Shift the balance to 50 percent informational text and
50 percent literature in elementary grades.
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Definitions of the Common Core State Standards Three Text Types
•Argument (Opinion) • Informational/Explanatory •Narrative
http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_A.pdf
CCSS Appendix A, p. 23
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Graphic Organizer for the Types of Writing
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Writing to Describe
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DESCRIPTIVE REPORTS
Descriptive reports are texts that classify and describe the way things are in our world. They
give details, often physical, about such things as animals, plants, weather, medicine, machines,
and countries. Their purpose is to describe a thing rather than to retell a
series of events.
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Descriptive Reports • Purpose • Form • Structure
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Descriptive Reports - Purpose
Descriptive texts are described as:
“Texts that classify and describe the way things are in our world, in which the writer gives details, often physical,
about things such as animals, plants, weather, medicine, machines, and country.”
Is That a Fact? Tony Stead
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Descriptive Reports - Form
There are two major types of descriptive reports: •General Descriptions •Specific Descriptions
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In descriptive reports you will usually see the following features:
•Title
•Opening statement
•Facts on the subject
Descriptive Reports - Structure
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Assessment Rubric for Descriptive Reports
• HO p. 4 • Text p. 114
Descriptive Reports - Assessment
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Writing to Instruct
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Writing to Instruct
•Purpose
•Form
•Structure
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Instructional Texts - Purpose
The purpose of instructional texts is to tell the reader how to achieve a particular goal or how
to follow a set of procedures.
Is That a Fact?, Stead
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Instructional Texts - Forms
Recipes Rules Directions Experiments Games
Lists Maps Letters Illustrations Captions Labels
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Instructional Texts - Structure
Instructional texts will usually contain the following features:
1. What is to be achieved (title, goal, purpose, or aim) 2. Materials, ingredients, or equipment needed 3. Procedure or steps the reader needs to follow to achieve the designated goal or aim
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Instructional Texts - Assessment Assessment Rubric for Informational Writing to Instruct K-
3
• HO p. 5 • Text p. 91
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Writing To Explain
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Scientific Explanations
•Purpose
•Form
•Structure
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SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION - PURPOSE
Tony Stead begins the description of Purpose by the following non-examples:
1) A recipe for chocolate cake
Instructional Text
2) A student explaining why he is late for school
Non-fiction Personal Narrative
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SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION – FORMS
There are two major types of scientific explanations:
1. Those that describe why something happens
2. Those that describe how something works or was formed
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SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION - STRUCTURE
A typical structure for Scientific Explanation includes the following:
1. Heading
2. Explanation of "how" and "why" and could include Cause & Effect
3. Summary
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Scientific Explanation- Assessment Assessment Rubric for Scientific Explanations
in Writing K-3
• HO p. 6 • Text p. 143
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Text Features
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Quiz, Quiz Trade, Trade
Write one question about what you have learned so far on one side
of your index card.
Write the answer to your question on the other side of the card.
When the music begins find a partner and ask each other your
questions.
Switch cards and hold up your card until you find another partner to
repeat the process with.
When the music stops return to your seat.
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Wrapping Up
Today we have:
• Learned about the reciprocity of reading and writing • Examined three different types of informative/explanatory writing • Studied the purpose, form, and structure of writing to describe, instruct and explain • Learned how to utilize rubrics related to the three types of informative/explanatory writing
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Resources
Explorations in Nonfiction Writing -Stead and Hoyt
Crafting Nonfiction-Hoyt
Reading and Writing Informational Texts in the Primary Grades- Duke
Common Core Standards and Appendices
Arkansas Ideas