In third grade, the students are learning how to be EmPOWERed writers as they Evaluate, Make a Plan, Organize, Work, Evaluate, and Re-work. Students have learned to evaluate, or circle the action word and underline the "what" every time they are asked to write a response, whether they are in science, math, reading, or writing. So, here we picked apart the prompt. We circled "Think" because that is the action word. Then we asked ourselves "What are we suppose to think about?" and underlined that. We also noticed that we are asked to write and describe. We started to make our way down this paper, which reminds us of the next step. We then discussed "what's my job?" and decided that we are being asked to give an opinion. With opinions, we know that a telling frame and cause/effect brainframes works the best. First, we brainstormed all the possible issues or problems at school. Then, we picked on and made a cause/effect brainframe to begin to organize our ideas. Next, we filled in our paragraph template. In third grade, we are focusing on having students write a solid paragraph with elaboration, an introduction, transition words, a conclusion, and details. Then, we reordered our reasons. This time we did it by cutting them out, rearranging them, and gluing them, but most of the time we will order them by writing in the circles next to each detail. We have been working on this all week. Tomorrow, we will take all this work we did and write a fantastic, elaborated paragraph together. We will practice a few of these paragraphs before doing a few on our very own.
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