Your child should have come home with a Vacation Adventure assignment this week. Third grade writers should write a paragraph about something they did over the April vacation. Please note, this paragraph is due on Friday.
The FCAs (focused correction areas) for this assignment are:
Small moment - The children should write about a small moment in time. It could be 10minutes, or even 3 minutes of their day. They should not write about their entire day, or even an hour. For example, jumping in the leaves is a small moment. Fall clean up day is not. We call the big topic (not a small moment) a "watermelon." We call small moments a "seed."
3+ specific details - Third grade writers should include at least 3 specific details telling about their topic. The details and the topic sentence should be about the same thing.
Proper Nouns - Third grade writers should put a capital letter at the beginning of all proper nouns (names of specific things).
Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions, comments or concerns you might have.
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