In this unit, students will build informational writing skills while researching topics to become experts on. They will read through various texts on the topic, taking notes, applying what they’ve learned in the reading unit on becoming an expert on a topic. They will then write an informational essay using the knowledge they’ve built as experts.
For texts, teachers can either use one topic whole-class that they have a lot of resources around (like frogs), or they can allow students to be mor