Three Reasons
There are Three Reasons is a strategy that provides a clear frame for writing with detail and support on a topic. The framed outline can easily be used to differentiate instruction and to provide students with a tool for organizing content. Additionally it provides a way of balancing a students arguements by making the reasons visual. The Three Reasons strategy can be in the form of a cloze or be used with sentence starters in addition to the example "frame" on this page. Because it is so adaptable it can be used at any grade level and to accompany any writing topic. It is especially beneficial for formulating a thesis statement.
How to: Paragraph One tell the reader the purpose of the paper. The final sentence in the paragraph contains the "Three Reasons Why" and becomes the Thesis Statement. Each of the Three Reasons becomes the topic for a body paragraph. The strategy works well with QAD to provide necessary detail or the Find the Facts is also useful. The final paragraph or closing provides a summation and a final reflection, quote, or prediction based on the initial concept and the Three Reasons.
How and When to Use The Three Reasons:
1. Writing a Thesis Statement
2. The 5 Paragraph essay
3. Editing/Revising
4. Closure
5. Research
How to: Paragraph One tell the reader the purpose of the paper. The final sentence in the paragraph contains the "Three Reasons Why" and becomes the Thesis Statement. Each of the Three Reasons becomes the topic for a body paragraph. The strategy works well with QAD to provide necessary detail or the Find the Facts is also useful. The final paragraph or closing provides a summation and a final reflection, quote, or prediction based on the initial concept and the Three Reasons.
How and When to Use The Three Reasons:
1. Writing a Thesis Statement
2. The 5 Paragraph essay
3. Editing/Revising
4. Closure
5. Research