📚 Comprehension and Writing G4U4W6D4

🎯Objective:

I can use information from text to write a response to a writing prompt.

Success Criteria:

I wrote an informational writing piece with details from Stargazing and Orion the Hunter that answers the Essential Question.

This week's resources:

1. This week's texts:
Stargazing and Orion the Hunter Download Stargazing and Orion the Hunter

2. This week's reading graphic organizer:
Main Idea and Details Download Main Idea and Details

3. Essential Question: How do you explain what you see in the sky?

4. This week's writing graphic organizer:
Informative Writing Graphic Organizer - Word Doc Download Informative Writing Graphic Organizer - Word Doc
Informative Writing Graphic Organizer - PDF Download Informative Writing Graphic Organizer - PDF

5: NEW TODAY:

Revision Checklist Download Revision Checklist

Today we take your writing to the next level! First, you will revise your writing. To REVISE means to re-examine and make changes to your writing. In this step we focus on the ideas and organization of our writing. Looking for spelling errors and punctuation come next in the EDIT stage. Everyone can improve their writing!

1. Using the Revision Checklist above, revise your own writing. Reading your writing aloud can be helpful while you're revising.

2. Find a partner. Review each other's writing using the Revision Checklist.

3. Review your own and your partner's notes. Make any necessary changes to your writing.

4. Now you're ready to EDIT. Using the Edit Checklist above, review your writing for spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors. Reading aloud can be helpful in this stage, too.

5. Find a partner. Review each others writing using the Edit Checklist.

6. Review your own and your partner's notes. Make any necessary changes to your writing.

7. Finally, you're ready to SHARE your writing! Your teacher will advise you on how to share your hard work! Take a moment to stop and appreciate all of that hard work and wonderful thinking you did this week!