1st Grade Explanatory Writing - My Friend

Assignment: Students write a explanatory story about a friend. Students follow the prompts to write a brief explanation about who their friend is, what their friend does and what they do together. Students add an image to illustrate their story. Students observe the rules of capitalization, word spacing, and punctuation. Students add their name.

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Explanatory Writing about a Friend - Template:

Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure. Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.2

Finished Example - Explanatory Writing