Wrapping up our essay...

Today we'll be moving from the outlines to paragraphs.  I want stress the importance of rereading your written work to look for fluency from individual paragraph to individual paragraph.  

Some things to think about:

• Are all of the paragraphs focused around the thesis?  
• For Example: If your thesis talks about adaptations and your paragraph about animals only lists 5 animals that live in that biome, the person who wrote that paragraph may need to make some changes.
• Read the work out loud to your whole group.  If it sounds choppy, then something in the sentence/paragraph needs to change.  
• If the reader pauses but there is not period there, do a double check to make sure that you don't have a run-on sentence. 

If your group wants extra points on this assignment, print off a copy of the Titanpad, read it out loud, and mark changes (and make those changes) on the copy and hand it in.  This shows me that you're taking time and thinking about what you are writing and I will reward that.