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Informative Writing. Week 13 November 27 th , 2013. The plan…. Objectives Review What is Informative Writing Types of Informative Writing Transition Words Delegate tasks, complete outline Begin Draft Wrap-up Preview. Objectives.
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Informative Writing Week 13 November 27th, 2013
The plan…. • Objectives • Review • What is Informative Writing • Types of Informative Writing • Transition Words • Delegate tasks, complete outline • Begin Draft • Wrap-up • Preview
Objectives • Student will recall and demonstrate their ability to create complete sentences from ideas and fragments • Students will be able to demonstrate their ability to organize sentences and paragraphs in a clear, coherent and sequenced manner.
Review Informative Articles
Informative Writing • Analyzes the _____________ and ____________ between two or more things • Huh? Sounds like Compare & Contrast. IT IS!! • This type of writing can be very __________ • Do I buy this car or that car?
Informative Writing • A comparison and contrast essay includes • A _____________ that has two or more things that are similar but not perfectly matched or extremely different • Details ____________ and _____________ • _____________ clearly to highlight the comparison
Informative Writing • There are ___ types of Informative essays • Regular ___________ and ___________ • __________ comparisons • Compares products with current information where the pros and cons of purchasing each • __________ evaluations • Compare two or more alternative plans or decisions where the pros and cons are listed
Drafting Remember this? Explain it to me.
Transition Words What are these? Can you give some examples??
Transition Words • These are words and phrases: • helps papers read more smoothly • provide logical organization and understandability • improve the connections and transitions between thoughts • Transitions indicate relations • Sentences • Paragraphs • Entire papers
Groups On the following slides are the group break downs for each class. Find your name and sit in your groups. Groups are NOT negotiable. Nice try, Slick!
Wrap-up • Give some transition words for similarities. • Give some transition words for differences.
Preview • Next time we will finish draftingour Informative Article • Peer Revisions!!