14
Students can be encouraged to write about people or places they have researched, carefully selecting the best verbs and adjective to describe them. The examples below are from 3rd graders who studied Frida Kahlo.
Figure 6: How to be...Frida Kahlo
Figure 7: How to be...Frida Kahlo
Brown, M. W. (1999). The important book. New York: Harper Collins.
This book uses this pattern to write about ordinary objects:
“The important thing about grass is that it is green.
It grows, and it is tender, with a sweet grassy smell.
But the important thing about grass is that it is green” (Brown, 1999, unpaged).
The first line and the last line are repeated and three reasons are given in between in this format. Students could be encouraged to use this format to write about almost anything. It can be used to describe a person, a place, a process, such as these examples from 3rd graders:
Figure 8: The important things about Shopkins
Figure 9: The important thing about Frida Kahlo