Students engaged in small group conversations to recall what they already know about paragraph writing before sharing their thoughts back with the group. As you can see on the right, 6 important elements of paragraph writing were highlighted and determined the success criteria for paragraph writing.
As a follow up lesson, I worked with students to continue furthering their understanding about paragraph writing. This time, students entered into a "think, pair, share" to figure out the appropriate order of a mixed up paragraph that I had created about my family summer fun. They also needed to figure out if all elements of a paragraph were identified while reconstructing the paragraph.
Next, I read students the True Story of the Three Little Pigs and through conversation, we created a web on the smart board (see photo up above, left side) to provide examples of the main idea, the topic sentence, the closing sentence as well as the supporting details connected to the story.
Last but not least, students were asked to use the organizer we had created as well as the class generated success criteria to develop a paragraph about the picture book.
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