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✍🏻 Curipod Quick Writes The Curipod Quick Write series is designed to get students excited about reading and writing. It engages students in simple writing experiences that teach them how to think like writers, build confidence, find their voice, and promote fluency. Curipod Quick Writes are TEKS and CCSS aligned. 🌟 An Epic Field Trip - Informational Quick Write Travel alongside your students to new and exciting locations with this Virtual Field Trip! In this lesson, students are whisked away to a city of your choice in the U.S. to experience some of the sights, sounds and culture in the area! Students will write a message to a friend about the location, if they include enough detail, they may be invited on a return trip to the location! 🦸 Learning Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to analyze short texts and create a short informational text using relevant evidence. ⏳ Estimated time: 20 minutes 🎯 Feedback: Students receive feedback aligned with the Curipod Informational Quick Write Rubric. 🛠 To Customize your Lesson: 1. Type in a location 2. Select your grade level 3. Add in optional stops along the way for your trip! 4. Click Customize now to personalize your lesson! 🚀 Pro-Tips: Let your students decide on a trip location. 📍Standards: Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills Standards (TEKS) Core: - TEKS 6.11B, 7.11B, 8.11B : Compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft. - TEKS (6.26), TEKS (7.26), TEKS (8.26): Students participate in student-led discussions by eliciting and considering suggestions from others and by identifying points of agreement and disagreement. Supported: - TEKS (6.6), TEKS (7.6), TEKS (8.6): Students understand, make inferences, and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. - TEKS (6.19), TEKS (7.19), TEKS (8.19): Students understand the function of and use the conventions of academic language when speaking and writing. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity. Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Core: - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.6.2, W.7.2, W.8.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.8.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade level topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly. Supported: - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.1: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. Tags: Quick write, informational writing, adventure, fiction, games, gaming, citing evidence, making inferences, AI feedback, Travel, Virtual Field Trip, Field Trip