Informative writing

We began working on informative writing this week. We began with looking at our writing standard. First we broke it apart into different pieces and talked through the language of the standard. While we were discussing we were highlighting pieces of the standard on our smart board. We also discussed the difference between the fourth grade standard and the third grade standard. The students were able to notice several things such as the addition of using precise language and having headings in their papers.  After that we worked on locating pieces of our standard in a mentor text that we had previously worked with to focus on structure of a text (ri.5). After spending some time focusing on this we worked on transferring this new knowledge to our interactive notebooks. Then we began to make goals for ourselves based on the what area of the standard we need to work on.