While studying the revolution, we have also been looking at the distinctions of each of the thirteen colonies and their three geographical regions: New England (north), Middle, and Southern Colonies.
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!
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!
Once they were all turned in, we did a SCOOT activity where students rotated every five minutes around the room so we could read each other's magazines and learn about other colonies besides just our own.