UP:ELA21.7.7b

Vocabulary

  • Informative/explanatory text
  • Organized structure
  • Formal style
  • Transitions
  • Precise vocabulary
  • Credible information/data

Knowledge

  • Informative or explanatory text is writing that provides factual information that was gathered from multiple credible research sources.
  • Informative or explanatory text has organized structure, and usually begins by clearly focusing on the topic, providing credible evidence, and ends with a conclusion.
  • Informative or explanatory writing should include academic, content-specific technical word meanings.
  • Words that indicate transitions.

Skills

  • Gather credible information and data from multiple sources.
  • Write an informative or explanatory text with an organized structure and formal style that develops the topic and utilizes appropriate transitions, credible information or data, and technical vocabulary words.

Understanding

  • Informative or explanatory writing follows a predictable, organized text structure that utilizes appropriate transition words and precise vocabulary.
  • They must gather their information and data about the topic from multiple credible research sources.
  • Using credible information/data can support a writer's ideas and claims.
  • Writers elaborate details included in the text by using formal academic, content-specific technical words.
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