My students need colored paper to organize their essay writing.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Ferro's classroom raised $286
This project is fully funded
My Students
If someone asked you to write an essay about your favorite season, how would you organize your thoughts? Would you put space between your paragraphs? Use more than one piece of paper per paragraph? Essay writing follows us through school but learning to first write them starts with organization.
My 3rd grade students come into class everyday wanting to learn something new.
Because of their various backgrounds, poverty levels and struggles at home, I have to be creative and ready to challenge them with exciting lessons and fun supplies. Teaching them ways to organize their thoughts is essential to help build confidence in writing.
My Project
Writing is a subject that my students have struggled with year after year. Some students don't like to pick up a pencil and write. I have let students write on and with all different types of supplies just to get their thoughts together. To teach my 3rd graders to write an essay I have to get them to separate their ideas into different paragraphs. I have found that a different colored paper for each paragraph has helped them when they are putting their thoughts together. We use one color for the introduction, one for each of the body paragraphs and one for the conclusion. When they finally finish all their pages they then rewrite or type everything into one essay.
My students are amazed at what they get as a final writing piece.
Students that barely wrote a few sentences, were now writing several page essays. All because they were able to get their thoughts together.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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