Third Grade Writing Info from Mrs. Christy

Third grade writers have completed their informational writing unit.  Students made great progress writing as teachers. An important part of this type of writing development was to organize writing into topics or sections.  Once students determined subtopics, it was important to elaborate with specific details and use text features to help teach their readers even more.  

Third graders continue to need a lot of support in regard to writing conventions.  Although they often know about using capital letters, commas, endings and quotation marks consistency remains challenging.  Students can make great progress with subtle reminders that hold them accountable.

During the next two weeks, we'll be doing a mini-unit on poetry writing.  We'll be looking at many different poetry styles from mentor texts and trying out a variety of formats.  Following that we will begin a very exciting opinion writing unit. This unit will focus on writing persuasive speeches, it is always a really popular one with passionate third graders!