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Student Writing Model
Plastic, Paper, or Cloth?
This short persuasive paragraph is based on a model that third-grader Rachel submitted. She begins her writing in a way that makes the reader want to keep reading. The reader wants to find out what decision she is talking about.
Student Writing Model
How to Make Boiled Eggs
This model of “How-To” writing is based on a model submitted by Dagmary. She has decided to list the steps in her recipe instead of putting them in paragraph form.
Student Writing Model
Cheetahs
The beginning paragraph of this writer's report invites the reader to keep going. The details show that she knows a lot about cheetahs.
Student Writing Model
Fire
Joey, the third-grade writer of this poem, uses personification when he says the smoke can “run up the chimney” and the “ashes dodge.”
Student Writing Model
Hello, Spring!
Connor, a third grader, rhymes words in his poem about spring.