Informational Text Project
Overview
This is a great final project to practice text features and text structures. Students have to pick a general topic then choose 3 different text structures to write articles on their topic.
Informational Text Project
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Informational Writing using Text Structures and Text Features
Your assignment is to create informational articles about a topic of your choice. You may choose to focus on a broad or specific topic, so long as you can write THREE different articles, each with a different subtopic relating back to the main topic.
Main Topic |
Each of your 3 articles will be written with a different text structure in mind. (Your choices are chronological/sequential order, problem/solution, cause/effect, and compare/contrast). Write the subtopics below:
Text Structure #1:
| Sub-Topic: |
Text Structure #2: | Sub Topic: |
Text Structure #3: | Sub Topic: |
After you have typed your articles, you must add the following text features:
A main title
Subtitles for each article
1-2 pictures for EACH article
A caption for EACH picture
A glossary (remember to bold these words in the articles)
Completed Tasks | Score | |
Text Structure | Includes three different articles, each with one of the following text structures: • Cause & Effect • Order & Sequence • Problem & Solution • Compare & Contrast | 25 points per article
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Text Feature | Articles include ALL of the following text features:
| 5 points each |