This document outlines a 15-session unit plan for teaching grade 1 students informational writing. The unit focuses on immersing students in informational texts, having them choose a focus question to research, drafting and revising an informational booklet to answer their question, and celebrating their work as authors. Each session includes the learning activities and materials as well as ways to check student progress.

1. Grade One
Unit of Study Five – Informational Writing
Informational Text and Presentation
Session Notebook/Minibook
Section
Folder Conferring
1. Immersion in
informational text
Encourage
Writerly Life
2. Immersion in
informational text
Encourage
Writerly Life
3. What Do I Notice?
 Create an anchor
chart
 Minilesson Encourage
Writerly life
4. Choosing a Focus
Question
 Create a chart of
student selected
questions
Record focus question Check-in
5. Researching Your
Focus Question
Notes re: focus question Check-in
6. Researching Your
Focus Question
Notes re: focus question Check-in
7. Grouping Facts
Together
List of Facts Check-in
8. Drafting an
Informational Piece
Booklet Monitor
Check-in
9. Revising and
Editing the Rough Draft
Booklet Monitor
Check-in
10. Publication Booklet Monitor
Check-in
11. Publication Booklet Monitor
Check-in
12. Adding
Illustrations, Photos,
Labels, Captions, and
Diagrams
Finished Booklets Monitor
Check-in
13. Adding
Illustrations, Photos,
Labels, Captions, and
Diagrams
Finished Booklets Monitor
Check-in
14. Table of Contents Finished Booklets Monitor
Check-in
15. Author’s
Celebration
Finished Booklets NA