I want to be writing activity

Last week we were talking about what we want to be when we grow up.  The kids had great ideas of what they wanted to be but I wanted them to go farther. So we started talking about why we wanted the jobs we talked about.  Next, we worked on putting our ideas into writing. We discussed what a topic sentence was and came up with the sentence starter "I want to be ..." Next, we talked about supporting sentences. These are sentences that describe or add to our topic sentence. All these sentences have to stay on topic and add to the readers knowledge of our topic sentence.  Last, we discussed closing sentences.  Then I asked the students to put their new found knowledge to use and write a five sentence paragraph. :)  Everyone did a great job on this task.  Here are a couple of our works in progress. 

We can't wait to share our final copies with you at conferences!!!!