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Many MVPs

Most Valuable Players are the spotlight of every sports season, but do your students know how they can use their own Most Valuable Possessions and Most Valuable Places to inspire their informational writing? In this lesson, students will use a variety of MVPs to examine and elaborate on a topic of choice.
Grade:
Third Grade
View aligned standards
W.3.10
W.3.2.a
W.3.2.b

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to closely examine a topic, grouping related information and developing facts, definitions, and details. Students will be able to construct a plan for an informative essay that includes detail development.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Invite students to share their thoughts about what makes an athlete an MVP. What actions are characteristic of an MVP? How would we describe an MVP?
  • Tell the students that they are going to be learning how to write informational texts using other kinds of MVPs. Instead of writing about Most Valuable Players, they will be writing about Most Valuable Possessions and Most Valuable Places.