Grade 3 EAL In Class Support 

This week my Grade 3 colleagues and I practiced writing explanations with our students. Using ideas from the Writing Fun site I have prepared an explanation text jigsaw. Our students were organized into groups and had to read and reconstruct the text. We had a meaningful discussion about the parts and features of explanation texts and our students had to give reasons for their viewpoints.

At the end of the class the students were offered several texts of various genres such as a report, a narrative and an explanation. Students were familiar with the report and narrative genres, as we practiced writing those text types earlier this semester. The task was to determine the type of text that they were working with. This activity also led to an interesting discussion where the children shared their ideas and reasons.