Time Order Words

NEW: July 2020- Digital activity for Google Slides added 3/12/19- New activities have been added!Did you know that students who are taught nonfiction text structure are better able to understand the material as well as the author's message? I have explicitly taught text structure to my third grade...

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The writer's workshop is a key component to Marie's literacy program. Together with her students, she strives to scaffold and dissect the features and organization of a form of writing so that the children in her class are able to understand the intricacies. This lesson is not at the beginning of her work with procedure writing. She has taken her students through different mini-lessons to address the form and co-constructed the criteria for a piece of procedural writing together. Marie uses…

I have been working on procedural writing with my class for the last few weeks using the following topics: How to play maths games on www.mangahigh.com How to make a sandwich/hot chocolate How to make something (arts and crafts) from recycled materials Recipes (sweet, savoury, imaginative and disgusting) Magic Tricks (They LOVED this one!) This week I'm going to do "How to make a St. Bridget's Day cross" and "How to play Stuck in the Mud." Other ideas for this type of writing are science…

Time Order Words List from TheTeacherCouple on TeachersNotebook.com (4 pages)