Critical Thinking: Analyze and distill information to educate or inform readers.
Responsibility: Present accurate and reliable information, acknowledging sources.
What methods can we use to identify credible sources and gather accurate information for our informational writing?Â
How can we organize and structure our informational writing to clearly convey our main ideas and supporting details to our audience?
In what ways can we incorporate multimedia elements (such as charts, graphs, and images) to enhance the clarity and impact of our informational writing?
Students will produce informational texts that are well-organized and use clear language to inform or explain a topic thoroughly.
Students will be able to identify and evaluate credible sources, demonstrating the ability to distinguish between reliable and unreliable information.
Students will be able to organize their informational writing logically, using clear and effective structures to present their main ideas and supporting details coherently.
Locate, assess, and select credible sources of information relevant to the topic of the informational writing.
Structure writing logically, ensuring that main ideas and supporting details are presented in a clear and coherent manner.
Critically evaluate information and integrate multiple sources to support the main ideas effectively.
Incorporate multimedia elements such as charts, graphs, and images to enhance the presentation and impact of informational writing.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.5 With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 8 here.)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
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