Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Term 2 Writing Genre: Information Reports

We have been busy writing reports about topics which we believe we are experts at. We have come across many features of reports such as, titles, headings, contents, labelled diagrams, glossaries and indexes and have tried hard to incorporate these into our own non-fiction information reports.
We performed a simple experiment of placing celery in red food dyed water. The reason we did this, was so we could write a report on what we did, why we did it and what happened.
We saw how the celery had used the water and had transported it around the plant, through the veins, up the stem and out to the leaves.
Taking the celery out of the red food dye water and about to dissect the celery to see what happened.