First Grade "Expert" Writers in the Lab this Week

First grade students visited the Heritage Writing Lab this week to learn about the organizational structures associated with Informational Writing.  To establish a sense of information writing as a genre, students worked through topics that they knew a lot about.  Topics included: soccer, gymnastics, video games, cities, cats, and friendship.  Studying Steve Bloom's mentor text Elephants, first grade writers explored organizing their topics by varied text structures including: compare and contrast, parts, pros and cons, and types and kinds.