Bend I: Informational Books- Making a Conglomerate of Forms
- Getting a sense of informational books
- Planning the structure of writing
- Teaching as a way to rehearse for information writing
- Elaboration- the details that let us picture what happened long ago and far away
- Bringing information alive
- Writers plan for their research
- Note-taking
- Drafting
- Logical structure- introduction and transitions
- Text features
- Quotations
- The other side of the story
- Information writing gives way to idea writing
- Digging Deeper: Interpreting life lessons from history
- Using confusion to guide research
- Questions without a ready answer
- Editing