Over the past few weeks we have been working on paragraph writing, including elements of topic sentence, supporting details, and closing sentence. The students have learned to use two very similar graphic organizers for planning their paragraph. The umbrella is one they draw themselves in their notebook, and the Empower Brain Frame is one that is ready for them to fill out. (Mostly it's personal preference and nice for them to have a choice.) The children are learning to write persuasive / opinion based writing, as well as factual / nonfiction writing. For example, the paragraphs below about January are factual. One could also write an opinion based paragraph about why they think January is the best month.
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