Writing Lessons

Post date: Oct 12, 2011 12:24:23 AM

I'm posting some materials I put together for teaching paragraphs and claim statements.

For the paragraph lesson, I had students color code the 5 parts of the sample paragraph, then do the same for their own paragraphs.

For the claim lesson, we talked as a class about what makes a strong claim, then I jigsawed the sample claims by table group. Each group had to ask all three questions of the claim and decide whether or not it was a good claim. They shared their results with the whole class and I marked up the transparency which claims we kept and which ones we changed or discarded.

P.S. the files are under "forms and docs"