Plan an Informative Paragraph About How a Lighthouse Works

Read the fact card aloud and have your child underline the facts they will use. Fill the planner with short notes, then write the paragraph on lined paper and check the organizers with the answer key where there is one.

Read a fact card about lighthouses, then plan a diagram with 2 captions, 2 details and a closing sentence. A diagram is a drawing that explains. A caption tells about it. The directions on the page read: Read the model. Read the topic. Then, read the Fact card. Then, using only the card, write a topic sentence, a diagram with 2 captions, 2 details and a closing sentence. Then, use your plan to write your draft on lined paper.

Yes, both. We made it for 4th Grade informative writing, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with writing informative paragraphs. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A topic sentence that names the main idea, three or more details with facts and definitions, and a closing sentence that sums up (W.4.2). Linking words like also and another join one detail to the next.

The page prints a short list of true facts, so your child spends the time organizing and writing instead of searching. The bats card, for example, explains echolocation, and the planner asks for 3 details that each start with a linking word.

Yes. The glaciers planner has a cause box and 2 effect boxes, the moths and butterflies planner has a compare chart and an Alike box and the saving water planner sets out a problem and 3 solutions.

6 of the 15 sheets have one. The fact card planners are open, so check that every detail comes from the card and is written in your child's own words.