Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.

Give students 2 sets of mixed up sentences to form 2 correct paragraphs.

Objective: To evaluate understanding of elements needed to write a good paragraph and remediate where necessary.

Activity:
1) Teacher made:
a) short paragraphs (writing each sentence part on a separate card),
b) mix two sets of two paragraphs together. Students work in small groups to sort sentences and form two correct paragraphs.
2) Pair students and have them work together to edit and refine their paragraphs about the circus.

Assessment: Accuracy in creating paragraphs that have a topic sentence, supporting details and a conclusion.