The Reading Workshop

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Writing to a Prompt

Write a multi-paragraph informational response describing how technology is changing the lives of children today. Your response must be based on ideas and information that can be found in both passages New Technology Makes Fake Arms Cheaper and More Useful for Children and Dream Jobs: Roboticist.

Manage your time carefully so that you can:

review the passages;
plan your response;
write your response; and
revise your response.

Be sure to:

include an introduction;
use evidence from the passages to support your explanation;
avoid overly relying on one passage; and
include a conclusion.

Here is Bryce's Introduction. He starts with an excellent topic sentence and has the main idea from each article.

Technology has changed throughout the years and has improved kids lives tremendously. Roboticists help the world improve technology everyday and look forward to making it better every time. People like Nick Thompson like to help find ways to make artificial arms cheaper and quicker.