Procedural Writing

Hi FR grade 8 English students! I hope you had a nice March break. We're back at it and preparing for our common English assessment which will be held this Wednesday, March 21. We will be assessing your procedural writing skills.

Here are some things to remember about procedural writing:

Sentences should be clear and concise. That means they provide only information relevant to the topic, but they should also not be too short that they break up processes that are connected.

Use titles and topic sentences. At the beginning of a new series of steps or information include a title heading or very short topic sentence.

Group two or three steps together under one heading. Don't break up your instruction into too many steps. Put together things that are closely connected. Personally, I avoid recipes that have too many steps in them.

So remember these important points. On your common assessment you will be asked to write the procedure for something and you will also be asked to evaluate a piece of writing. Think about what makes written instructions effective or not. Open a cookbook for some examples or cruise through Wikihow.com to check out some examples. You decide how effective they are.

I'll post your examples tonight!