• Students use multiple sources to gather facts about a topic.

• Students use writing tools, such as graphic organizers, to organize information.

• Students independently create informative texts.

• Students include clear main ideas and supporting details in their writing.

• Students use quotations from two or more sources in their writing. 

• Teachers model gathering, organizing, and synthesizing information about a topic from multiple sources.

• Teachers provide sources for students to gather facts about a topic.  

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to gather, organize, and synthesize information. 

• Teachers model the writing process.

• Teachers explain the importance of using quotes to provide relevant evidence to support ideas and claims in writing.

• Teachers model how to use quotes when citing evidence in informational writing.

• Teachers provide time for students to write.

• Teachers provide feedback to students about their writing. 

When students struggle using quotations to cite evidence in their writing, teachers can...

• review rules for citing evidence.

• provide anchor charts for students to reference.

• provide sentence starters for quoting explicit text.

When students struggle to write their ideas and information down, teachers can... 

• have students rank and discuss strong and weak writing examples.

• provide a clear structure for students to follow.

• have students color code the parts of an informational text.

• provide sentence starters and transition words for students to use in their writing. 

• Informative Writing: writing that shares facts and details in order to explain.

• Quote: to copy the exact words from a source, set off in quotation marks.

• 4.3.W.2: Informative Writing

• 4.5.W.9: Quotation Marks

• 4.6.W.2: Citations