All
About Books on Topics of
Personal
Expertise
Purpose of this unit:
Students will write informational
books to teach the reader about a topic they know and love. When you
read a good nonfiction book, you can just hear how the author is so fascinated
with the topic. They are so excited about it, it's almost contagious. This kind
of excitement gets readers interested too! Our big goal in this unit is to
write our informational books so well that our readers are as fascinated
by our topic as we are.
Goals:
Students will be able to:
•
Generate
appropriate ideas for an all-about book (the student knows enough about
the topic and they can write about it in different ways)
•
Write
details that support the main idea of a page (structure).
•
Make use of
nonfiction features (structure).
•
Elaborate
using multiple strategies, such as: giving more details by explaining where,
when, why, or how, or providing an example with a personal story; giving
warnings, giving definitions of tricky vocabulary, or adding supplemental pages
with papers of their choice (elaboration).
•
Add a
personal touch to books by starting some sections with a lead, such as a
question to the reader, or by giving an example using a story from their own
life (voice).
•
Re-read work
to make sure its readable- check for capitalization, end punctuation, word wall
words, and spelling rules (mechanics).