Burro’s Tortillas: Writing a Cooperative Paragraph

In this video, the teacher walks her students through a cooperative paragraph summarizing story beginning, middle, and end, using small group work, visual support to foster interaction and oral language development and content-embedded written “mistakes” to teach spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.

Content Comments

Shared writing and effective use of support are key activities in primary school instruction. Elements of writing are taught as part of content instruction rather than in a decontextualized manner.

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Resource Type

Product or Tool

Author

Colorin Colorado

Organization

Colorin Colorado

Published

2013

Grade Level

Elementary School (K-5)

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Keywords

Curriculum and Instruction Diverse Learners Standards

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