Sunday, June 28, 2009

Information report draft writing T2 09

As part of our 'unit of inquiry' we are looking at a place called 'Coober pedy' where life is so different. The impact of the hot sun plays a role in how people live in the desert.
Below is a draft writing session in Year 3.
We have bullet points that support our thinking. We use these bullet points to help us organise our thoughts.
The children have been photgraphed as they are preparing their paragraphs.
They are learning to use interesting sentence starters. These can be technical sentence starters or ordinary sentence starters which enable the children to demonstrate a variety in their sentence structure.
They are learning to be strong language users.

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Below is what an information report should look like.
Assessment of information report Self assessment

Name_____________ Date______________

Purpose:
My writing gives the reader information about a class of things

Structure
I have identified the subject of the report
I have written details to describe the subject
I have written a conclusion

Grammar

I have used adjectives of describing words
I have used conjunctions or joining words
I have used verbs in the present tense eg is, are, have, has, live

Writing features:
I have planned my writing
I have used correct, simple sentences
The tense of verbs is consistent
The subject and verbs agree
I have used plurals correctly
I have used capital letters, full stops and other punctuation markers correctly
I have checked my spelling and corrected when I have miscued a word

Self assessment by______________

My strengths:
My next learning step:

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