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Informative-Explanatory Essay Writing Guide (Grades 3-5) : Purpose, Focus, and Organization Evidence and Elaboration

This three-paragraph document provides a writing guide for informative-explanatory essays for grades 3-5. It outlines the key elements of purpose, focus, organization, evidence and elaboration, and basic conventions. Specifically, it emphasizes a clear controlling idea, strong organization, integration of relevant evidence and sources, elaboration techniques, precise language, and varied sentence structure. Minor errors in conventions are acceptable.

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Informative-Explanatory Essay Writing Guide (Grades 3-5) : Purpose, Focus, and Organization Evidence and Elaboration

This three-paragraph document provides a writing guide for informative-explanatory essays for grades 3-5. It outlines the key elements of purpose, focus, organization, evidence and elaboration, and basic conventions. Specifically, it emphasizes a clear controlling idea, strong organization, integration of relevant evidence and sources, elaboration techniques, precise language, and varied sentence structure. Minor errors in conventions are acceptable.

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Writing Guide

Informative-Explanatory Essay Writing Guide (Grades 3–5)

Purpose, Focus, and Organization Evidence and Elaboration


The response is fully sustained and The response provides thorough and
consistently focused within the purpose, convincing support/evidence for the
audience, and task; and it has a clearly controlling idea or main idea that includes
stated controlling idea and effective the effective use of sources, facts, and
organizational structure creating details. The response includes most of the
coherence and completeness. The following:
response includes most of the following:
• Relevant evidence integrated smoothly
• Strongly maintained controlling idea and thoroughly with references to
with little or no loosely related material sources

• Skillful use of a variety of transitional • Effective use of a variety of elaborative


strategies to clarify the relationships techniques (including but not limited to
between and among ideas definitions, quotations, and examples),
demonstrating an understanding of the
• Logical progression of ideas from topic and text
beginning to end, including a satisfying
introduction and conclusion • Clear and effective expression of ideas,
using precise language

• Academic and domain-specific


vocabulary clearly appropriate for the
audience and purpose

• Varied sentence structure,


demonstrating language facility

Conventions
The response demonstrates an adequate command of basic conventions. The response
may include the following:

• Some minor errors in usage, but no patterns of errors

• Adequate use of punctuation, capitalization, sentence formation, and spelling

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