In our Literacy Block, we are currently working on Geoprgia Performance Standard ELA4W2:

  The student produces informational writing that:

  a.  Engages the reader by establishing a context, creating a speaker's voice, and otherwise developing reader interest.
  b.  Frames a central question about an issue or situation.
  c.  Creates an organizing structure.
  d.  Includes apprpriate facts and details.
  e.  Excludes inappropriate information.
  f.  Uses a range of appropriate strategies: provides facts and details, describing the subject, etc.
  g.  Draws from more than one source of information.
  h.  Provides a sense of closure to the writing.