Students in 3rd grade should be writing regularly in a variety of styles and for a variety of audiences. Usefulwriting projectsfor 3rd graders includeopinion, informative, and narrative essays, as well as short research projects. For many students, the most difficult part of writing is facing th...
Provide students with two opinion passages about the same topic — one should argue for the subject, the other against it. Read and discuss the passages as a class, and decide together if you're for or against the topic. Brainstorm a list of ideas (as a class!) to support that opinion...
1Organized and Well-Developed Ideas By the end of the fifth grade, students should be able to produce organized and well-developed writing that contains an introduction, a body and a conclusion. Important organization and structural elements include clearly writing the main idea in the first paragr...
The present study investigated the effective use of a writing strategy for enhancing sixth graders' comprehension of a world history topic. Based on an integrated communication arts approach, the procedures included speaking, listening, and reading for all students, with writing the crucial variable of...
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It's time for some storytelling fun. In this creative lesson, students become authors and put together their own mini storybooks. Lesson Plan Here’s What I Think! Lesson Plan Here’s What I Think! 2nd grade Reading & Writing Second graders love field trips and sharing their opinions! This...
For more book and reading ideas,sign upfor our Scholastic Parents newsletter. Reading in 3rd Grade After mastering literacy skills in earlier grades, 3rd graders become better and more independent readers. Third grade reading focuses on teaching kids how to think and talk about what they read in...
Third-graders should be advanced enough to learn how to edit their own work or to use prewriting to begin the work of constructing a narrative. The worksheet they used to plot out their story ideas also can be used to flesh out the narrative by including questions about characters' reactions...
To determine students' metacognitive knowledge of the expository writing process, a study analyzed fifth and sixth graders' declarative, procedural, and co... TE Raphael - Institute for Research on Teaching, College of Education, Michigan State University, 252 Erickson Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824...
First thing this morning, I got to lightly supervise a few interns who are facilitating a group for dads, prepping to present to classrooms of 8th graders, and being coached by Dylan Wright, who just might be the most dynamic presentation coach of all time. These young people are smart, ...