Writing

Intro to Course:  Third grade Writing focuses on students being able write to a topic and pull information from sources to cite in their writing.  It is the expectation that they will use information from sources to support their opinions or explain a topic. Students must then elaborate on the information from these sources.    

District Writing Assessment: Third grades has a distrct writing assessment this year. They will be working on the computer later on this year to complete it. If you can, please have them practice typing on a keyboard so they can get used to it. 

Assignments/Homework: There is no assigned homework for Writing. All work is completed in class.  Classwork consists of the writing process. Students are asked to brainstorm, write a rough draft, edit/revise, and write a final draft. Students test are their final drafts.  

Opinion Writing

Students can:

- restate the prompt in their main idea/topic sentence.

-use transition words and phrase to connect their ideas

-write conclusions that sum up their opinion 

Informative Writing

Students can:

-introduce a topic and group related information together

-develop a topic with facts and details

-write concluding statement