More EX-Team practice! Let’s look at the article Woof!. Is there any EXPERT quotes or statistics? NOPE – there are none! Read the section Talking Tails. Find where the writer gives EXAMPLES. Read Explaining Ears. The first sentence in this section is the topic sentence and tells the main idea. “A dog can use his ears for more than just hearing—he can communicate with them, too.” What do you think needs some more EXPLANATION? Read and find out how the writer explains this.

Mapping a Main Idea Today’s Objective: Learn how to use “Mapping Out” as a prewriting strategy for planning the development of main ideas. Look at the Write to the Point planner Jordan filled out before he wrote the article Woof! After completing his Write-Point planner, Jordan’s next step was to plan what information he would write about each main idea. His teacher taught him about the EX-Team for developing ideas, and he tried to incorporate those into his plan. Look at the “Map” Jordan filled out for first two main ideas. I’ll read what Jordan stated about “Mapping Out” main ideas.

Mapping Out Main Idea (Practice) Help me fill out a Write to the Point planner for this prompt. I will model how to appropriately “Map Out” the 1st main idea paragraph in the Pre-writing stage. Then you will help me do “Map Out” the 2nd main idea. After we finish this practice on Mapping Out – you will do this for your own Feature Article.

Moving from Pre-writing to Drafting: main idea and details Now, we’re going to look at how Jordan moved from his Main Idea Map to drafting his main idea paragraphs. Listen to Jordan’s think-aloud as he described how he used his main idea map to help construct his first main idea paragraph.

Moving from Pre-writing to Drafting: main idea and details Look at the Mapping Out we did for the “Impressing a New Teacher” prompt. Help me generate a sentence that states the main idea for the first main idea paragraph. What are the reader’s needs for the topic sentence? What word or idea in the topic sentence needs explanation? How can we incorporate the EX-Team in our paragraph? Let’s repeat this process for the second main idea paragraph!

T.E.A.R. (Main idea paragraphs) 1) Topic sentence (use Voice – not boring!) 2) Explanation (explain your topic sentence) 3) Another EX-Team (more than 1 sentence) 4) Repeat topic sentence (in a different way – remind the reader of the main idea)

Pre-writing to Drafting – Main Idea Paragraphs In the same way we just practiced you can begin writing your Main Idea paragraphs. Be sure you are using your: “Write to the Point” planner and your “Mapping Out” sheet Follow the T.E.A.R. sentence-structure. I know you have not done your Intro paragraph, but you’ll skip that for now!

Text Features Objective: Review the types of text features and understand their use in developing main ideas and organizing information. Text Features include: title, heading/subheading, charts/graphs, bold/italics, glossary, index, pictures/photos, captions, etc. Look at your Key Characteristics sheet. What 3 ways could text features can impact feature articles? ANSWER: 1) audience awareness, 2) developing ideas, and 3) organizing information.

Text Features Let’s look at other student Feature Article examples. What text features do you recognize? In what ways did the text features improve their piece? What text features could the author have used for Kentucky at Its Best? Start planning what text features you can use for your Feature Article. Write those ideas down and use them when you write out your article.

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