Students in grades 3, 4, and 5 participated in Writing Lab lessons this month as they embarked on a Literary Essay unit of study together. Students in 3rd grade climbed inside the book FOX by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks to inspire their writing and thinking. Students in 4th and 5th grade closely read The Other Side, by Jaqueline Woodson. As Literary Essay is a form of Opinion or Argument Writing, students worked to form an opinion about a character in the book, support their opinion with reasons, and back their reasons with evidence from the text. As students paired reading and writing in the Lab, they paid focused attention to the tiniest details in the text and then wrote to grow their ideas about those details. This process encouraged them to analyze and then articulate their thinking rather than simply retell what’s “right there” in the text.
Our next Writing Labs will focus on Poetry and will run in February.
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