Information report about Mercury

We are learning to write an information report about a topic related to space.

By Friday 5 June you need to have written and edited your information report on a topic related to space so that it is ready to be published.

Here are some ideas to write

• Jupiter
• Astronauts
• Earth    
• The Moon
• Eclipses
• Stars

My topic is:

Mercury

You need to attend one workshop with the teacher on an area that you feel you need help with for your writing. Here is the timetable where you will make your bookings. There is space for seven people in each workshop so book in quickly to make sure there is space!

Start researching and plan your writing here: (remember to write notes in your plan). Click here to see an exemplar of a plan.

Introduction:
Main idea: Appearance Mercury look like the Moon.	More detail: Size 328.5E21 kg (0.055 Earth mass). Mercury is the closely planets to the Sun.	More detail:  Mercury energy Mercury has almost no atmosphere  to trap heat,
Main idea: Mercury is grey	More detail:	More detail:
Main idea:	More detail:	More detail:

Success Criteria for writing. Click here to see an exemplar of an information report about Mars.

Level 3	Student Targets:	Yes!
Audience and Purpose	Identify my audience and purpose for writing.
Content/Ideas	Write clearly and include all important information.
	Add factual detail to expand my ideas.
Structure: including punctuation and grammar	Use different sentence starters.
	Join some ideas using conjunctions such as: when, while, after, since, until, if, because, although, that
	Organise my ideas into paragraphs and sequence my ideas so that my writing flows.
	Use subheadings for each new paragraph to tell the reader what it is about
	Check that I am writing in the present tense (for example: the sun is a ball of fire; the stars are shooting through the sky)
	Use a range of punctuation correctly.    (.,?!)
Editing	Identify and correct most spelling errors.
	Improve my writing so that it is more enjoyable/informative for the reader.

Start your writing here:

Mr Mercury

Information

Did you know that Mercury is 328.5E21 kg (0.055 Earth mass).

Appearance

 The planet Mercury looks a little bit like Earth's moon. Like our Moon, Mercury's surface is covered with craters caused by space rock impacts.Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.

Size

The size of Mercury is 2,440 km,Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system.The closest planet to the sun,is Mercury.

Mercury engine

Earth, it appears to move around the Earth its orbits in about 116 days.Besides you know that the Moon orbits the Earth and the Earth orbit the Sun.In fact did you know that Mercury is hot,because Mercury is next to the Sun,that why Mercury is a hot plnaets.

Facts about Mercury

Did you know that Mercury is one year on Mercury is only 88 Earth days long.Also Mercury

Information report about Saturn.

Information Report

Success Criteria

Clear categories with subtitles	Self	LB
Use questions to hook the reader in the introduction
Use sentences and paragraphs
Use facts to inform the reader
Use different sentence starters
Use VCOP

Start writing here…

            Saturn

                        Introduction

Have you ever want to know more information about Saturn.This is a good information report for you!

                                Appearances

Saturn is a beautiful planets,also you can not go to that planets because there is no air in Saturn.Did you know that Saturn is the brighter planets in the solar system??? The rings is made out of rock and ice.

                                      Size

Did you know that Saturn is the second biggest planet in the solar system, Saturn orbits the sun and it orbits itself.Saturn is very light and some people say that if you got a big enough bucket and saturn fell in the bucket saturn would float on the water in the bucket.

                                    Colour

Many people explore the colour of Saturn,the colour is like yellow and rainbow colour (some of them,Yellowish brown)In Saturn it has  liquid gas.

                                    Rings

The ring is made out of ice crystals and in Saturn it like a destiny,it’s yellow and dusty.The rings is so amazing to see,you can see it because it is brighter to see it without a  telescope. Saturn is named for the Roman god Saturn,and know for the Greek.

Saturn has many rings around Saturn,may planets has rings,but you can not see them,only Saturn.

                         conclusion

Saturn is a nice planet,I learn many things about Saturn.I hope you like my report about Saturn!