Sentence Sort
Organizing a Paragraph (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 2: Consolidation / FluencyStage 3: Literacy for Growth
Ages:
8-12
Grade Range:
3rd 4th 5th 6thFood Groups:
Primary: Writing Processes & Strategies
Transcript
In this writing task, the students practiced writing a paragraph. Before they did the activity, we looked at the criteria and the requirements for writing a paragraph. As you can see on the chart, we went through four different sections of writing a paragraph. The students were then given an envelope that contained sentence strips, and they had to organize the sentences in the correct, or the proper order, that would make up a good paragraph.
Related References
Basic Paragraph Structure: http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/fwalters/para.html
Activity Objective
The goal of Sentence Sort: Organizing a Paragraph (Virtual Tour) is to provide students with practice in organizing their writing and help students develop writing fluency to ease the process of composing.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Allowing students to work in small groups or pairs will provide opportunities for meaningful talk and active participation.
- Including a variety of topics and written paragraphs will allow students to share their work with the rest of the class.
- Once students have completed the activity, review the parts of a paragraph with the whole class. You may wish to display a paragraph on a piece of chart paper with labels indicating the different parts.
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