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A How-to Essay is a written, step-by-step explanation of a process. Choose a process that you enjoy and write a how-to essay that will help readers perform the process. This will be a five paragraph essay: introduction paragraph, three paragraphs for the body, and a concluding paragraph.

After reading a short story as a class, third grade students will use a graphic organizer to identify the story's main characters, conflict, and conflict resolution. Students will then write a one paragraph summary of the book using proper spelling, grammar, and punction. Main characters, conflict and Resolution must be included in summary

Students selected a pair of homophone,illustrated them and wrote a short story using the homophones.

Guidelines for scoring an expository essay.

After students were taught the parts of a friendly letter, they were asked to write a friendly letter to the teacher. The letter was to share information on what they had been doing in class. The directions were also to be sure to correctly use all parts of the friendly letter and include at least 4 sentences in the body of the letter.

After students were taught the parts of a friendly letter, they were asked to write a friendly letter to the teacher. The letter was to share information on what they had been doing in class. The directions were also to be sure to correctly use all parts of the friendly letter and include at least 4 sentences in the body of the letter.

After students were taught the parts of a friendly letter, they were asked to write a friendly letter. The letter was to share information on what they had been doing in class. The directions were also to be sure to correctly use all parts of the friendly letter and include at least 4 sentences in the body of the letter.

Write sentences using all fifteen spelling words. All sentences must be at least 7-10 words long. Each sentence must begin with a different word, capital letter and have proper end punctuation. Start each sentence on a new line. Number all sentences. Underline or highlight all spelling words. Make sure two of your sentences are questions (?) and one sentence uses a exclamation(!).

Students will use basic 2nd-5th grade grammar when completing written assignments. This grammar would include: proper capitalization, proper punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, spacing and indentation.