3rd Grade Authors

The Art of the Eight-Layered PBJ
I've been working with a group of third graders to get a head start on an upcoming biography unit. After a couple weeks of exploring text features and taking notes, we've moved into the writing phase. In third grade, they refer to a "peanut butter and jelly" framework for well-structured paragraphs. 

The students had a blast assembling pre-written sentences into a paragraph on Rosa's early adulthood.

Ingredients: 

• bread (topic and concluding sentences)
• peanut butter (main ideas)
• jelly (details)