They discuss audience and try to determine who will be reading their ads. At home, they measure rooms to get ideas of room sizes. Finally, they turn paragraphs into ads, replacing complete sentences with phrases, noting that words in ads cost money, and real estate agents are concerned about budgets. MI.ELA.2. demonstrate the ability to write clear and grammatically correct sentences, paragraphs, and compositions MI.ELA.3. MI.ELA.10. apply knowledge, ideas, and issues drawn from texts to their lives and the lives of others MI.MAT.I.1.
Teacher does the same.
Everyone writes a paragraph describing their favorite room. Class edits teacher's paragraph together, replacing boring, factual language with interesting, descriptive phrases. Then, they create their houses out of shoe boxes, including all features they think are important to a house. Next, students examine actual real estate ads on the Internet. They look at sizes of rooms, total square feet, and other features listed.