Informational Writing Anchor Chart & Lesson – Brainstorming Main Ideas

Description

Organize informational writing around strong main ideas. This anchor chart and lesson help students brainstorm and structure expository writing.

Organizing your expository writing around main ideas is important for informational structure! In this unit, students will read books to think about main ideas, build an anchor chart, learn a three-step process for creating main ideas, and brainstorm their own for writing an expository piece. Activities are hands-on and authentic!

Included in this resource:

• Teacher tips for introducing writing strategies
• Mentor text list for main ideas
• A hands-on activity in which students read main idea statements and determine if they support the central idea or not
• Materials for building an anchor chart to record the hands-on learning
• Materials for an engaging brainstorming lesson
• Brainstorming Maps
• 4 creating main ideas posters
• Expository structure planning sheet
• Creating main ideas notes: complete and ready to write
• What’s it all about handout: identify the main ideas from a planning map
• Revise It: add in missing main ideas
• Try It: write main ideas about a topic of your choice
• Main Ideas Checklist: a bookmark-sized guide to writing better main ideas

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