Unit Plans for How-To Guide Writing (+ illustrating + podcasting), K-12
A complete, super-flexible writing unit sure to engage students' expertise, from Kindergarten to senior year.
Informational writing gets easily ignored. Especially in high school. We want students to be interpreting, analyzing, meaning-making. So a lot of us (me included!) skip over informational writing in favor of what we perceive to be higher writing callings.
But I’ve been changing my tune.
Composing just-the-facts in a clear, concise way is an art, too, an…