Teaching Eight-Year-Olds to Sound Like Bankers
by Susan Ohanian
AFT Share My Lesson Common Core fulfillment mania strikes again, with a lesson on informative/expository writing (free registration required) that tries to make eight-year-olds sound like bankers.
Warning: They may forever lose their voices in the process.
We're told that this lesson satisfies this Common Core Standard:
Students will be able to: Core Standard W.3.2b: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details. Core Standard W.3.2c: Use linking words and phrases to connect ideas within categories of information.There's a handout where kids can check off that they have used these words (Tell students that linking/transition words can be used to tie all their paragraphs