Introducing Report Writing

Today our Writers Workshop began a focus on report writing. The class voted to do the first report on cheetahs. Before the writing begins, the students first need to become familiar with what report writing looks like. In this lesson, groups of students investigate nonfiction texts about cheetahs. Students were to understand that reports are partitioned into chapters which focus on a particular content area. Each group made a chart which listed some of the chapters in their nonfiction book, and interesting information contained in each.