How do you build a draft for an informational text?

1. How do you build a draft for an informational text?

2. In this lesson you will learn how to build a draft by assembling bullet point facts into complete sentences.

3. An informational text gives facts about a non-fiction topic. Powhatan/Settler Relations Introduction Land Disputes Body Working Together During Cold Months Pocahontas’ Role for Peace Conclusion

4. Writing Process 1 2 3 Generate Ideas Write Drafts Revise and Edit

5. Re-writing bullet points without adding a voice. Zzzz… Powhatans lived in Virginia. Their home was near Jamestown. Jamestown was settled by English colonists. They had a hard time.

6. 1 • Re-read your bullet point notes. • Use an explaining voice to rehearse in your mind what you are going to write. 2 3 Record this information in complete sentences.

7. 1 • Re-read your bullet point notes. • Land Disputes • Claimed the peninsula for their own • Found the spot they settled marshy and bad for crops • Wanted to move, but Powhatans got angry since it was their land

8. Use an explaining voice to rehearse in your mind what you are going to write. 2 English settlers claimed the Virginian peninsula for their own • Land Disputes • Claimed the peninsula for their own • Found the spot they settled marshy and bad for crops • Wanted to move, but Powhatans got angry since it was their land The town they called Jamestown did not have good farmland. The Powhatans were upset that their land was being taken

9. Record this information in complete sentences. 3 Land Disputes English settlers claimed the Virginian peninsula for their own. Unfortunately, the town they formed, called Jamestown, did not have traditional farmland. As they attempted to grow crops, the Powhatans watched angrily as their land was being taken. • Land Disputes • Claimed the peninsula for their own • Found the spot they settled marshy and bad for crops • Wanted to move, but Powhatans got angry since it was their land

10. 1 • Re-read your bullet point notes. • Working Together During the Cold Months • Could have held a grudge about the land and let them starve • Sent food • Traded goods, services, and knowledge

11. Use an explaining voice to rehearse in your mind what you are going to write. 2 The Powhatan tribes saw the settlers suffering through the fall and winter. • Working Together During the Cold Months • Could have held a grudge about the land and let them starve • Sent food • Traded goods, services, and knowledge They sent food as a peace offering. It helped them survive. After, settlers traded English goods for knowledge about the land.

12. Record this information in complete sentences. 3 • Working Together During the Cold Months • Could have held a grudge about the land and let them starve • Sent food • Traded goods, services, and knowledge Working Together During the Cold Months The Powhatan tribes saw the settlers suffering through the fall and winter. They sent food as a peace offering. It helped them survive. After, settlers traded English goods for knowledge about the land.

13. 1 • Re-read your bullet point notes. • Use an explaining voice to rehearse in your mind what you are going to write. 2 Record this information in complete sentences. 3

14. In this lesson you have learned how to build a draft by assembling bullet point facts into complete sentences.

15. Using your bullet point facts and table of contents, draft body paragraphs for your informational text.

16. Take the dull, paragraph below and re-write it using a friendly, explaining voice: • There are many Native American tribes in the Unites States. The Powhatan live on the East Coast. The Lakota live in the plains. The Pueblo People live in the West. They all have different homes. Powhatans have long houses, Lakota have teepees, and Pueblo People make adobe houses.

17. Use these bullet point facts and create a paragraph with complete sentences. • Many voyages to the New World • Rough journey • Many deaths • Land not good for crops • Little supplies • Bad weather

18. Using your bullet point facts and table of contents, draft body paragraphs for your informational text.