Third Grade, Writing, Set Five

Along with continuing to learn the capital letters in cursive, we worked on writing a compare/contrast essay.

I picked up The Bossy Gallito at the library and noticed its similarity to The Old Woman and the Pig. We used these two stories for our essay.

• (week 1) After reading both stories
• (week 2) we made a Venn diagram to show how they were alike and different.
• (week 3) Then we wrote a topic sentence for the compare paragraph and another for the contrast paragraph.
• (week 4) Then we wrote the body of the paragraphs.
• (week 5) We wrote the closing sentences.

Now I've put it away, but I will bring it back out in fourth grade so we can add opening and closing paragraphs.