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8 Add Details
• As children complete their drafts, project or display Anchor Chart W00:
INFORMATIONAL TEXT • DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY
Elements of Informational Text and remind them that their descriptive essays
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
should contain these elements.
• Use features of informational text
in writing. • Revisit Display and Engage 2.5b. DISPLAY AND ENGAGE
• Add details to informational text. Point out descriptions, details, and
• Language Discuss writing tasks with examples. Explain: When writers work
academic language. on an early draft, they revise it by adding
new details to make their writing more
MATERIALS Online interesting.
Anchor Chart W00: Elements of
Informational Text
• Model how to add a detail to a draft.
THINK ALOUD First, I can go back
Display and Engage 2.5b
through my notes and chart and see if I
Writer’s Notebook p. 2.8
have another detail to add. If I need to, I
can consult another resource and make
a new note. Next, I’ll think about the
LEARNING MINDSET: best place in my draft to put this new
Curiosity detail so that it makes sense.
Model Explain to children that it is
normal to try out different ways to
• Write this new detail on the board,
organize the details in their draft. My draft then read it aloud: They sell the food
is an early piece of writing. At this step in the right on the street! Explain that this
process, it is good to use my curiosity to sentence was not in the essay in the
experiment with organizing the details, beginning. But, after feedback, the
descriptions, and examples. Sometimes I
writer added it to the essay. Point out
read my draft out loud to see how it sounds.
Then I make adjustments if it sounds better a where the author added this sentence
different way. Being curious about the order in the essay. Read the essay without
of sentences in my essay helps me write a this sentence and then with the
better essay. As you circulate the room, sentence. Discuss how adding this detail develops the idea selling food from food
encourage children to move sentences
carts with specific and relevant information.
around to experiment with flow.