For our culminating activity, we combined reading standards, writing standards, and social studies standards by creating a Text Feature/Informational Text Structure Magazine on a specific colony.
Students had to utilize text features such as headings, subheadings, bold/italic/highlighted words, glossary, bibliography, pictures, captions, maps/diagrams/charts/timelines, etc.
They also had to write three informational text structure paragraphs on their colony using their personal research. The five informational text structures include compare and contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution, sequence, and description. For each, they also used signal words to identify the structure.
They did an AWESOME job on these!