Writing

Our work with informational writing has continued. We spent this week working on paragraphs about raccoons. First we read and annotated, then took notes.  The next step was to form our paragraphs including a topic sentence, three detail sentences and a conclusion sentence. Students knew so much about how to write good paragraphs and we really has some quality pieces come in. Here are some examples of how the writing turned out.

Next students will be completely independent as they write about an animal of their choice. Ask your child which animal they chose and what they learned in the initial reading of their research.