Wednesday, April 1, 2015

"Hamburger" Paragraphs

How is writing a good paragraph like a hamburger?  Third graders have been exploring how they can use a hamburger model to write a quality paragraph.  Nonfiction is our current focus area in writing.  We have read several different formats of nonfiction book.   Students have been reading about lots of different animals.  They are now using this research to practice paragraph writing.  They will then be focusing on an animal of their choice to write a nonfiction book about.  I'm curious to see what animals they choose and what writing formats they use.  I'm so proud of this class' progress as writers!

So what do we mean about "Hamburger Paragraphs"...






The top of the bun is our topic sentence.  The fillings and meat patty are the juicy details we want to share in our writing about that topic.  Finally the bottom bun is our concluding sentence.  It would be hard to eat a hamburger without that bottom piece, so it is important for us to remember that when writing we must include a conclusion that summarizes our main idea (topic sentence). 

Below are a few of our "Hamburger Paragraphs."  We wrote them by hand to practice our handwriting (that skill gets rusty sometimes in our age of technology). 





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