Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Informative or explanatory texts provide facts about a topic that were gathered from a research source.
- Informative or explanatory writing should end with a sense of closure.
Skills
Students are able to:
With prompting and support,
With prompting and support,
- Write an informative or explanatory text about a topic.
- Use sources to find facts.
- End the text by providing a sense of closure.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Informative or explanatory texts require research, provide facts or details about a topic, and end with a sense of closure.
Vocabulary
- Informative
- Explanatory
- Topic
- Facts
- Source
- Sense of closure
- Prompting
- Support
