Students are engaged in a unit focused on report writing. They will work in small groups to write a report focused on butterflies, and then each student will choose a topic and write their own report. The culminating activity for this unit will be utilizing the final report to create a children's book. Throughout this unit students will:
- Choose a focused topic
- Find relevant and reliable resources
- Learn how to take information from sources that supports a focusing question, and put it in their own words (note taking)
- Write an effective introduction and conclusion
- Write detailed paragraphs for the body of the paper with topic sentences and a variety of linking/transitional strategies
- Follow Bibliography format to cite resources