Adding Relevant Details Expository or Informational Minilessons

Description

Including different types of details in expository writing are an important strategy! In this unit, students will read books with great details, understand different types of details, revise writing to improve the details, and try out different types of details in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic!

Included in this resource:

• Teacher tips for introducing writing strategies
• 9 days of lesson plans already written, including a learning target/objective for each lesson
• Mentor text list for four different types of expository details
• Sample anchor chart for a mentor text lesson
• A hands-on activity in which students read examples of four different detail types and identify the type being used in each
• Materials for building an anchor chart to record the hands-on learning about detail types
• Activity for brainstorming details to describe a topic
• 5 Good Details posters
• Good details notes: complete and ready to write
• Relevant or Irrelevant Details: Students read details and cut to sort them into “relevant details” or “irrelevant details.”
• Revise It: Students revise a paragraph that includes irrelevant and repeated details
• Brainstorm and Write It! Read the main idea and brainstorm different types of details to build a paragraph
• Brainstorm and Write Your Own! Revise a piece of writing to include different types of details
• Try It: write four different versions of a conclusion to a topic of your choice
• Details Checklist: a bookmark-sized guide to writing better details