Gummy Bear Paragraph Writing

As we continue with descriptive paragraph writing, I like to model good writing and have students participate in a shared writing task.  This helps students to better understand what I expect from their writing and how to write a good paragraph.

Today the students helped me write a paragraph describing my favourite snack: gummy bears.  Yum!

First we brainstormed using our 5 senses.

Next we wrote a topic sentence to set up our writing (green sentence).  This was followed by good, descriptive detail sentences using our senses and the information we brainstormed prior to starting (yellow sentences).  Finally, we ended our work with a closing sentence that is similar to the topic sentence and finishes off our piece nicely (red sentence).

Tomorrow students will go through the same process - writing a descriptive paragraph - using another food item. ;)