1. Georgia DOE

2. Part II: Genres • Changes in the Genres Assessed • Informational Writing • Defining Informational Writing • Informational Writing in the GPS • What Informational Writing Is and Is Not • Persuasive Writing • Defining Persuasive Writing • Persuasive Writing in the GPS • What Persuasive Writing Is and Is Not • Narrative Writing • Defining Narrative Writing • Narrative Writing in the GPS • What Narrative Writing Is and Is Not

3. Changes in the Genres Assessed New Grade Five Writing Assessment • Informational, persuasive, and narrative writing are assessed • Each student will be assigned one of the following • Informational prompt • Persuasive prompt • Narrative prompt • Students must write on the assigned genre Previous Grade Five Writing Assessment • Narrative writing was tested • Each student wrote a narrative composition in response to a personal experience or imaginative story prompt

4. Defining Informational Writing Informational Writing: Writing that enhances the reader’s understanding of a topic by instructing, explaining, clarifying, describing, or examining a subject or concept. Method • Provides facts, statistics, descriptive details, comparison/contrast, analysis, evaluation, definition, humor, and personal anecdotes. Genres: Informational Writing

5. Informational Writing in the GPSELA5W2 The student produces informational writing (e.g., report, procedures, correspondence) that: • Engages the reader by establishing a context, creating a speaker’s voice, and otherwise developing reader interest. • Develops a controlling idea that conveys a perspective on the subject. • Creates an organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context • Develops the topic with supporting details • Excludes extraneous and inappropriate information • Follows an organizational pattern appropriate to the type of composition • Concludes with a detailed summary linked to the purpose of the composition Genres: Informational Writing

6. What Informational Writing Is and Is Not Genres: Informational Writing

7. What Informational Writing Is and Is Not Genres: Informational Writing

8. Interesting places are all around us and could be far away or close to home. Think about an interesting place. It could be somewhere you have been, read about, or seen on television. Write a report about a place that is interesting to you. Be sure to include specific details and explain what makes the place interesting. Sample Informational Writing Topic Writing Topics

9. Defining Persuasive Writing Persuasive Writing: Writing for the purpose of convincing others to accept the writer’s position as valid, adopt a certain point of view, or take some action. Method: • Provides logical appeals, emotional appeals, facts, statistics, narrative anecdotes, humor, and/or the writer’s personal experiences and knowledge to support a position. Genres: Persuasive Writing

10. Persuasive Writing in the GPS ELA5W2 The student produces a persuasive essay that: • Engages the reader by establishing a context, creating a speaker’s voice, and otherwise developing reader interest. • States a clear position or perspective in support of a proposal. • Supports a position with relevant evidence. • Creates an organizing structure appropriate to a specific purpose, audience, and context. Genres: Persuasive Writing

11. What Persuasive Writing Is and Is Not Genres: Persuasive Writing

12. What Persuasive Writing Is and Is Not Genres: Persuasive Writing

13. Your teacher just posted the sign below. What animal do you think would be the best classroom pet? Why? Write a letter to persuade your teacher to buy the pet of your choice for the classroom. Sample Persuasive Writing Topic Writing Topics

14. Defining Narrative Writing Narrative Writing: Writing that tells a story or gives an account of something that has happened. The purpose is to recount a story grounded in personal experience or the writer’s imagination. Method: • Uses a setting, characters, circumstances or events, a plot, a point of view, and a sense of resolution to tell a story. • Description of these elements is a key factor. • May employ strategies such as flashback, foreshadowing, dialogue, tension, or suspense. Genres: Narrative Writing

15. Narrative Writing in the GPS The student produces a narrative that: • Engages the reader by establishing a context, creating a speaker’s voice, and otherwise developing reader interest. • Establishes a plot, point of view, setting, and conflict, and/or the significance of events. • Creates an organizing structure. • Includes sensory details and concrete language to develop plot and character. • Excludes extraneous details and inconsistencies. • Provides a sense of closure to the writing. • Lifts the level of language using appropriate strategies including word choice. Genres: Narrative Writing

16. What Narrative Writing Is and Is Not Genres: Narrative Writing

17. What Narrative Writing Is and Is Not Genres: Narrative Writing

18. You walk in your classroom one morning and the teacher is absent. There is a note on your desk that says you are the teacher for the day. Write a story about your day as the teacher. Sample Narrative Writing Topic Writing Topics