3rd Grade Writing

Publishing with Google Docs allows students to digitally share their work with you. Using the Comments feature, teachers may engage in a rich conferring dialogues to raise the level of student writing. Providing students with a Writing Checklist allows them to manage their own writing process. Docs is great in combination with Google Classroom as an assignment distribution format!

• Docs tutorials and resources

• Google Classroom tutorials and resources

• Comments video tutorial

Google Docs can be used to create grammar exercises. Great in combination with Google Classroom as an assignment distribution format!

• Docs tutorials and resources

• Google Classroom tutorials and resources

The paragraphing unit is intended to develop student understanding of paragraph structure. 

Adobe Express can be used to create movies using the student's narrative writing as the script. 

• Adobe Express tutorials

• Manta Ray Narrative Writing

Shadow Puppet is an app that allows the user to create mini-slideshow movies. It's a great option if you'd like to hear students record their voices as they read several pages of text, or if you'd like students to publish their writing. Shadow Puppet movies are easily shared to Seesaw or the iPad Camera Roll.

• How to use Shadow Puppet

Adobe Express can be used to create mini-movies to accompany students' persuasive essays. 

• Adobe Express tutorials

• Lesson plan

Adobe Express can be used to create movies using the student's informational writing as the script. 

• Adobe Express tutorials

• Basketball informational writing movie

Google Drawings can be used to provide visuals for the informational/biography unit. 

• Google Drawings tutorials and resources

Students create newspapers with articles, crossword puzzles, and advertisements called the Time Traveler Times. Having learned all about the Bay Miwok Tribe (this could be substituted with Orinda History), students will create a newspaper with the premise that they have just returned from having lived with the Bay Miwok tribe during the pre-Columbian era. Here are some resources:

• Time Traveler Times lesson plan

Google Drawings can be used to create fun posters to publicize a publishing party. 

• Google Drawings tutorials and resources

• Baskteball info writing poster

Google Drawings can be used to create comic strips for the fantasy unit. Use the Insert Image feature to add characters and icons. Text boxes and callouts can be added to create narrative and dialogue. 

• Google Drawings tutorials and resources

• Comic example

Google Drawings can be used to provide visuals for the poetry unit. Use text boxes to insert the poems and shapes to build the illustration.

• Google Drawings tutorials and resources

• Hills poem example

Magnetic Poetry is a creative writing aid consisting of individual words—often related to a particular theme or topic—typed into on small text boxes which can be creatively arranged into poetry. Here are some resources:

• Magnetic Poetry templates

Google Slides is a great format for publishing writing across all genres. Students may add text just like they would in Google Docs, but Slides is much more flexible in terms of adding images and videos. By clicking Present, Google Slide shows can leafed through just like a digital book. 

• Google Slides tutorials, resources, and examples

• Google Slides magazine templates