Level D
Third Grade
As in Level A and B,
students are taught through drawing how to focus on a main idea. In Level C,
it is taken to the next step. Students insert these sentences in a pre-written story
frame.
Level D
continues this comfortable format in Unit 1. This is done in an
attempt to elicit students' prior knowledge if they have been instructed with "Teach
Me Writing" in the past. It becomes a teaching tool for those
students who are not familiar with the process of writing organized paragraphs.
The next three units, or
135 lessons of Level D, concentrate on exposing the students to different
story settings and different types of introductions. Students are given the
opportunity to expand stories through the use of transition words, emotion words, Vivid
Vocabulary® and figurative language. As
the students master the writing format independent practice is provided.
The last section of Level
D consists of 45 lessons. These are pre-written narrative and expository
essays that focus on different conventions of writing. Students are taught how to
edit.
"Teach Me Writing" meets
Florida's Standards of Accountability.
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