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Teaching Writing

Teaching Writing. Are we having fun yet?. Personal Memoir/ Recount. Getting started. Beyond “My summer holiday”. Grade 5: a biographical sketch, based on research Grade 4: a timeline of significant events in the writer’s life, to accompany a biography for a class collection

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Teaching Writing

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  1. Teaching Writing Are we having fun yet?

  2. Personal Memoir/ Recount Getting started

  3. Beyond “My summer holiday” • Grade 5: a biographical sketch, based on research • Grade 4: a timeline of significant events in the writer’s life, to accompany a biography for a class collection • Grade 6: an “autobiography” in the role of a historical or contemporary person, based on research

  4. Pre-writing a biographical sketch • Mentor texts- immersion • What might the biographical sketch template look like? • What might research template look like?

  5. Pre-writing a timeline • Mentor texts- immersion • What might a timeline template look like? (The Write Genre, p. 45) What might the biography template look like? What migth the class book look like?

  6. Steps to Teaching the Writing Process Immersion What’s Next? Activity with a partner to match the titles of categories with their definition

  7. Planning R- Role of the writer A- Audience F- Form T- Topic S- Strong verb: purpose for writing

  8. Why We Write • Social purpose: to recount, to persuade, to entertain, to describe, to instruct, to explain

  9. Learning goal- Grades 1-3 • Recount Possibilities • Write a scientific or mathematical investigation (grade 2) • Write a personal recount of a past experience, including pictures, to share with family or friends (grade 1) • Write a personal or factual recount of events or experiences that includes photographs or drawings and captions (grade 3)

  10. Learning goal- Grades 4-5 Recount Possibilities Grade 5: a biographical sketch, based on research Grade 4: a timeline of significant events in the writer’s life, to accompany a biography for a class collection Grade 6: an “autobiography” in the role of a historical or contemporary person, based on research

  11. Success Criteria- grade 2 and 3 Beginning • I included the 5 W’s in my beginning Middle • I have listed one or more events in order End • I ended with a summary or personal reaction

  12. Success Criteria- grade 5 Beginning I included the 5 W’s in my beginning Middle I have listed one or more achievements that are important to that person’s life End I ended with a summary or personal reaction

  13. Success Criteria- grade 4 Beginning I included the 5 W’s in my beginning and my timeline Middle I have written details about two of the important events in my life End I ended with a summary or personal reaction and my timeline

  14. Marker Student Work • With a partner, read marker student work and use the success criteria to find one praise point and one teaching point; remember to include the focus of instruction

  15. Next time:December 2 Choose one form of writing that you’ve done Bring in one anchor chart: either the learning goal, success criteria, exemplar, shared writing, Bring in two pieces of writing, one from each of your marker students

  16. Meanwhile…. • Wiki http://southeast-onederfulwikkispaces.com

  17. Learning Goals-grade 1 • I learning how to write about something that happened to me. OR I am learning how to write about something I did.

  18. Success Criteria- grade 1 I know I did it well because: • I can draw a picture about what happened. • I can label my picture. • I can write about what happened.

  19. Success Criteria- grade 1- other possibility My writing looks like : I can draw a pictures • I can label. • I can write a story.

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