Lesson Overview

Learners can:

• identify and use interrogative adjectives in writing

• group related information in paragraphs and sections, linking ideas within categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses; include formatting when useful to aid comprehension

• write a concluding statement or section

• develop the first draft of informative writing

Yesterday, Liam brainstormed his thinking in his spiral notebook.

Today, he will organize his thinking further by grouping related information into paragraphs and sections.

Organize Your Facts

He looks for similar ideas or facts and labels them with a quick drawing.

Grouping Ideas

Liam writes a sentence for each of his big ideas using the facts he has brainstormed.

Choose a Focus

Liam looks at what he has so far and thinks about how he can add on. He will build on each fact using information from the text. He will group like facts and ideas together to keep his writing organized and easier for his reader to understand.

Using the Text

• First, Liam looks in the text for information about his first fact. He thinks about what he can add to his informational writing about water being a solid, liquid, and gas.

• He uses the table of contents to find the page on states of water. He goes to that page and looks for facts and details he can use in his writing.

• He underlines information that he thinks is important to use for writing his paragraph about Fact 1.

• He sees information about changing states. He knows he can use this information when writing his paragraph for Fact 3. He underlines this, too.

​See how Liam used the text to support his facts

Liam's First Paragraph

Choose three facts and write one in each box of your Informational Writing Organizer

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Your Turn!

Writing a Draft

Liam's Draft

Liam knows that writing a draft is about getting your ideas on paper. He uses what he knows about the topic and what he has read in the text to write his rough draft.

Writing Activity Book, pages 35 and 36. 

Writing Your Draft!