Informative-Expository

=Informative/Expository=

Narrative | Informative/Expository | Persuasive

Summary Report
Summarizing and presenting about existing information.
 * Hospital Visit (Suggested Grade 1): Students summarize what they learned after visiting the hospital.
 * Environmental Center: Summarize what they learned.
 * Field Trips
 * Assemblies: Students summarize what they learned at an assembly.

Book Report
Summarizing key points and information about a book read.
 * Reader's Theater
 * Retelling from a different character's point of view
 * You Read to Me, I'll Read to You stories from the library. (Grade 1)

How-To Directions
Summarizing detailed step-by-step information. Demonstrates understanding as well as being organized for the audience to recreate.
 * Fire Safety/Emergency Situations (Suggested Grade 1): Students summarize the fire safety procedures
 * Recipe Books
 * Curriculum Skills: Students would create a photostory to support/review a particular skill they were taught.

Biographies
Summarizing information about the lives of people and their legacies.
 * Lives of Famous People - students summarize the life of a famous person from the 1st person point of view or from the point of view of an object important to that person.
 * An Important Person in History Is...: Students summarize the great works important historical figures have contributed to society.