Students have finished their flap books on their pet research and they shared them with the class. I so enjoyed listening to their flap books and seeing their amazing pictures. I love this short, but authentic research project. We are ending the year with awesome products. Way to go kids! Students then took what they learned from their research and used the information to highlight in a letter to parents why they should get this pet. Students filled out a plan sheet with their opinion . For example, I think I should have a gerbil. And then students used parallels structure to state two reasons. They used this plan sheet then to write a letter, as they elaborated on each reason. Some students will be bringing home letters that do not look like the letter below. Even though we spent a lot of time on elaboration during our opinion writing unit, some kids did not elaborate and just wrote their reasons. Letters, if done correctly, should look like the one below with a paragraph for each reason that gives some elaboration on their reasons. You should see parallel structure- one reason, another reason- at the beginning of each paragraph.
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