Mrs. Ricks at Springfield Park approached me looking for a more interactive way to have her students plan for writing a paragraph. She noticed that their attention just wasn’t there using paper, pencil, and markers, so I helped her create a template in Pixie that her students can use for future writing assignments.
The first green dot is for the topic sentence. The yellow dots are for main ideas, and the red rectangles are for supporting details. Finally, the last green circle is for the conclusion. On this template, everything except for the text boxes are glued down so that students can not rearrange the shapes on the page. After students type up their sentences, they could easily then record themselves reading their paragraph and listen to it played back to see if it makes sense. Click the link below to download this Pixie template.
