Informative

What is the purpose of an informative essay?

• To provide information, or explain steps in a process. 

• To tell a story. 

• To entertain the readers.

• To persuade the reader.

What do you never add to an informative essay?

• Facts

• Opinions

• Quotes

• Punctuation

An informative writing piece has ________ Paragraphs

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

In an informative writing composition, NEVER SAY I !!!

• True

• False

What is informative writing?

• writing that tells a true story

• writing that supports a claim by giving logical reasons and evidence

• writing that provides information about a variety of subjects in a variety of forms

• writing that is the true story of someone's life, written by someone else

Write an informative essay about the effects wild animals and humans have on each other when they live in the same area. Use information from the passages in your essay.

• Informative

• Argumentative

If you are asked to write an informative essay, what do you do?

• Take a stance and support it with evidence

• Write a story about the topic using E123CFR

• Write a paragraph about your opinion on the topic

• Write a detailed report about the topic without your opinion

The Rose is the national flower of the US.  Each state has a flower too.  You have just read a story about Mississippi's state flower.  You are to write an essay giving facts and supportive details about Mississippi's flower. What is the flowers name?  How was it chosen? What does it look like?  

• Informative Writing

• Opinion Writing

• Narrative Writing

Types of Informative Essays:​ ​ ​ ​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ (d)   ​ (e)  

• cause and effect

• process

• descriptive

• compare and contrast

• problem and solution

• Narrative

• Argumentative

• Non-Fiction

• Script

• persuasive

Each Body Paragraph should include a

• Claim (or subtopic) set it up, a piece of text evidence and a tie-in/elaboration

• little to no evidence

• the author's opinion by stating I believe...

• thesis statement