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Find Your Facts

Find Your Facts

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DISCUSS:
What do you notice about the facts Tatiana read while looking for information
about the Safari Park?
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Get your supplies.
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On your Destinations worksheet, circle the names of the two places
you liked the most. Label them 1 and 2.
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Learn how to play the sorting game. When you’re ready to play the
game, move on to the next step.
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Silently show the motion that matches each fact.
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We’ve written these facts as notes for you. Write these notes from
the game we played into the matching sections on your worksheet.
Only add facts that match the destinations you circled.
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Get your Seoul Facts worksheet. Read each fact one at a time.
Decide which destination it matches. If it’s one of the destinations
you circled, jot a few words about that fact on your worksheet.
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Get your supplies. You can put your Seoul Facts and Word Bank
worksheets to the side.
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Find the destination that you labeled as number 1. Write the name
of that destination in the “Title” box on your Web Page Draft.
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Start at the arrow to write your topic sentence. You can use
Tatiana’s or come up with your own.
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While you’re drafting today, you can turn each fact into its own
sentence, or combine facts to make longer sentences. Decide which
fact you want to write about first. Put a checkmark next to that
fact.
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Write a sentence about the fact you marked on your Web Page.
If you want, you can put two facts in your sentence using one of
these connecting words.
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Use your notes to draft the rest of your paragraph. You can use
these sentence starters or come up with your own. Continue adding
checkmarks to facts as you write sentences about them.
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Nice job, writers! Today you sorted facts about your destinations and
drafted your first paragraph! Before you go, make sure your VIPs get
put somewhere safe. I’ll see you next time.
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Lesson details

Grade 4

Informative

Organizing Information & Drafting

29 reviews

Students will...

Print Prep
  • read text to gather information and add on to existing notes.

  • sort information by topic.

  • draft a paragraph for one of their chosen destinations.

Before this lesson...

  • Students should have completed Lesson 1 of this unit.

  • This lesson guides students through writing a topic sentence. If students need an intro or additional support with topic sentences, we recommend teaching the Topic Sentences lesson first.

Seoul Facts worksheet 1 per student
Web Page Draft 1 worksheet 1 per student
Seoul Destinations from previous lesson
1 per student
Word Bank from previous lesson
1 per student

OPTIONAL SUPPLIES

Answer Key from previous lesson
1 per class
Prep Instructions
  • Students will need to bring their completed work from the previous lessons to this lesson.

  • Some students may not be able to finish a draft of a paragraph in one lesson. You may need to build in extra time after this lesson for students to finish drafting. Students will begin drafting their second paragraph in the next lesson.

Standards

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Introduction

5 mins

Writing Activity

30 mins

Lesson details

Grade 4

Informative

Organizing Information & Drafting

29 reviews

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Drawing

Drawing

Writers often help their readers imagine parts of their writing by including pictures. On the back of your worksheet, sketch a drawing to help your reader imagine your destination. Add some words at the bottom of the drawing to make a caption.

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Travel To Seoul Lesson 2: Find Your Facts

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