Five for Friday {Informative Writing}

We visited our school media center and students were able to pick  two informational sources on the same animal topic.  They then spend a few days reading the texts with parents, during read to partner and then read to self.  After they had a grasp on the information, they selected interesting facts marking them with post it notes and adding them to their "Interesting Facts" page.       Students used the illustrations from the book for inspiration as they worked on the covers of their books!  They did an amazing job working on their illustrations.          Students worked on organizing their information using a Tree Map from our Thinking Maps!  This is a super way to set them up  as more advanced readers can use this for paragraph organization.        We used our thinking maps and interesting facts page to help us get started on our rough drafts.  Students also went back into the text and yes, even the glossary, to make sure they had their facts straight!       And last but not least (for this week) is the final copy.  We still need to work on our glossary, table of contents and about the author pages next week.   I love this unit and am so thankful I found it on TpT! Informative Writing {A research-based, all about book} by Susan Jones is my go to resource!