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📖 1st Grade · ELAW.1.7Unit 10: Informative writing: How-to & All About

Research a topic

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🎯 Objective: Students gather facts on a topic with the class.

Lesson outline

  1. Read about a topic together (e.g., penguins).
  2. Record facts on a class chart.
  3. Students choose a topic and list what they know.
  4. Exit: three facts.

Lesson 2 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

W.1.7

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Name a topic, supply facts and provide closure

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Kids encyclopedia📚 All 1st Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Informative writing: How-to & All About”

  1. How-to writing
  2. Research a topic
  3. Writing facts
  4. Publishing

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