Information Paragraph Assignment



Information Paragraph Assignment

Task: Write a well constructed information paragraph (one paragraph only) on the topic below. This aspect will become the main idea of your paragraph.

Topic: Your life

Choose one aspect: __________________

Examples:

My family life

My School life

My Social life

From the points below, choose at least four as supporting details to develop your main idea. In your paragraph, include a topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding sentence. You must use information from the list.

Purpose and Audience: To provide information to an adult on one aspect of the topic.

An information paragraph:

• Gives the reader facts about one aspect of a person, a place, an event, an activity or a natural or scientific phenomenon, or

• Explains how something works, or

Gives instructions for how to do something

Parts of the Information Paragraph:

Use this table to map out what you are going to include in your paragraph. Use your “All about you” graphic organizer to support your writing.

|facts |1. |

|Will be a list of details |2. |

|you will address in your |3. |

|paragraph |4. |

|aspect /angle | |

|What are you going to focus| |

|on? | |

|main idea | |

|Your main idea will connect| |

|to the aspect you chose to | |

|discuss. | |

|supporting details | |

| | |

| | |

| | |

|conclusion | |

| | |

| | |

To write an information paragraph

Planning

· Choose an aspect (angle) you are going to focus on.

· Draft a topic sentence. This tells the reader what aspect you are going to write about (for example “OLC 4OI” is a subject. “OLC 4OI, is a class filled with smart, humorous and caring students.” is a topic sentence).

· List supporting details. Put them in chronological order, or by importance

Writing

Write in the 3rd person perspective: ie: Mrs. Urquhart’s family is the most important part of her life.

· Write your information paragraph using your topic sentence and the details you listed.

· Use connecting words (like “first, second, third” or “then” or “because”) to join the points you listed.

· Include at least four pieces of information

· Write a final sentence that restates the main idea (your topic sentence) and summarizes the supporting details.

Rubric Checklist

Have I:

|Criteria |Marks |

|Written one paragraph with a topic sentence? | |

|Written my paragraph in third person perspective? (I did not use “I”) | |

|Clearly outlined in my topic sentence what I will talk about in my paragraph? |/5 |

|Used four pieces of information? | |

|Clearly integrated these pieces of information into my paragraph to support the main idea? |/5 |

|Used transition words like “First” and “then” and “because” | |

|Completed my paragraph with a concluding sentence that summarizes my main idea? | |

| |/5 |

|Edited my work for spelling errors? | |

|Edited my work for grammatical errors? | |

|Used a dictionary to effectively incorporate new words? | |

| |/5 |

What do I need to improve upon for next time? /20

o Topic sentence needs to be clearer

o Conclusion needs to refer back to the main ideas

o Spelling

o Grammar

o Sentence Structure

o More details to support topic sentence

o Word Choice

o Clarity of Writing

Notes:

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