How To Writing Assignment

Introduction

Imagine that a kid in your class wanted some advice from you on how to complete a task.

Task

You will research a topic that you are interested in, so that you can teach a friend in your class how to do something.

You could teach a friend how to:

Bake cookies
Build with legos
Write a story
Play soccer

You will:

Choose one of the above tasks (Choose something you like to do or are good at)
Research and take notes about how to do your task
Write how to do the task

Include at least 3 steps
Draw a picture to go with each step

Process

Step One

Choose your topic:

Bake cookies
Build with legos
Write a story
Play soccer

Step Two

Research about your topic by clicking on the link:

Step Three

After you have done research, use the information you already knew and the information you have learned to write a How To direction guide teaching your friend how to perform the task.

Step Four

Draw pictures to match your steps.

Step Five

Revise your writing and drawings to include a lot of details that make sense.

Edit your writing for correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

Evaluation

Addressing	Proficient	In Progress	Not Yet
The Task Showing a clear and consistent understanding of what the directions are asking you to do.	Researched and wrote all steps to teach a peer how to do a task. Completed the stages of the writing process.	Researched and wrote some steps to teach a peer how to do a task. Completed most of the stages of the writing process.	Did not research and write any steps to teach a peer how to do a task. Completed none of the stages of the writing process.
Development Showing a clear main idea and supportive information	Provides detailed written and drawn description of how to steps.	Written and drawn description of how to steps is somewhat detailed.	Written and drawn description of how to steps is not detailed.
Organization	Writes steps in logical order.	Writes steps in somewhat of a logical order.	Information is in no apparent order.
Language	Provides complete sentences.	Provides some complete sentences.	Provides only sentence fragments or one/two-word responses.
Spelling, Punctuation, and Capitalization	Spells words phonetically. Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and pronoun I. Correctly punctuates the end of a sentence.	Provides only the correct beginning sound of a word. Capitalizes some of the first words in a sentence and the pronoun I. Correctly punctuates the end of a sentence some of the times.	Does not provide a phonetic spelling of a word. Never capitalizes the first words in a sentence of the pronoun I. Never punctuates the end of a sentence.