Writing
Current project: Persuasive Essay (Should...?)
Focus: Ideas and Organization, using online resources for facts to back up our reasons
Writing Process: Brainstorming, free write, revising, editing, and presentation
Students are using a graphic organizer and finding facts online about their topic. Students will also include a counter argument to disprove the other side of the debate.
Current project: Persuasive Essay (Should...?)
Focus: Ideas and Organization, using online resources for facts to back up our reasons
Writing Process: Brainstorming, free write, revising, editing, and presentation
Students are using a graphic organizer and finding facts online about their topic. Students will also include a counter argument to disprove the other side of the debate.
Persuasive Writing Examples:
Adopting a Pet from the Pound Letter to the Editor Summer: 15 Days or 2 1/2 Months? |
Informational Writing Examples:
The Great Paw Paw Height-Challenged German Shepard Mir Flies on for the Next Generation Unique Wolves |
Check out www.thewritesource.com. Another great resource to help kids with their writing is to use "mentor texts". Mentor texts are any piece of literature, poems, picture books, chapter books that students can look at for good examples of literary techniques and great author styles to mimic.
At Storybird you start with a photo or artwork and tell a creative story about it.
At Storybird you start with a photo or artwork and tell a creative story about it.
"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." ~Samuel Johnson