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Interdisciplinary Writing Unit Narrative & Informational Writing 4 th Grade. By: Sheri Bashlor. Georgia Writing Test. There are standard guidelines that teachers go by to identify what stage of writing each student belongs to.
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Interdisciplinary Writing UnitNarrative & Informational Writing4th Grade By: Sheri Bashlor
Georgia Writing Test • There are standard guidelines that teachers go by to identify what stage of writing each student belongs to. • When putting a student in a particular stage, teachers must collect and consider several written pieces from the child. • This following general guidelines give students the feedback needed in becoming effective writers. • The following is a list of stages and descriptions for grade 5.
Georgia Writing Test • Stage 1 – Emerging Writer • Little of no evidence of topic development, organization, and/or detail. • Little awareness of the audience or the writing task. • Errors in surface features that prevent the reader from understanding the writer’s message. • Stage 2 – The Developing Writer • A topic that is beginning or developed. • The beginning of an organizational plan. • Limited awareness of the audience and/or the task. • Simple word choice and simple sentence patterns. • Errors in surface features that interfere with communication.
Georgia Writing Test • Stage 3 – The Focusing Writer • A clear topic although development of the topic is incomplete. • An apparent plan with loosely organized ideas. • A sense of audience and/or task. • Minimal variety of vocabulary and of sentence patterns. • Errors in surface features that interrupt the flow of communication. • Stage 4 – The Developing Writer • A clear and developed topic although the development may be uneven. • A clear plan with a beginning, middle, and end. The beginning and/or end may be clumsy. • Evidence of writing for an audience. • Evidence of experimentation with language and sentence patterns. • Word combinations and word choice may be novel. • Errors in surface features that may interrupt the flow of communication.
Georgia Writing Test • Stage 5 – The Emerging Writer • A topic that is well developed. • A plan with a clear beginning, middle, and end. • Organization that sustains the writer’s purpose. • Audience awareness techniques that engage the reader. • Effective use of varied language and sentence patterns. • Errors in surface features that do not interfere with the reader’s understanding of the writer’s message. • Stage 6 – The Extending Writer • A topic that is fully elaborated with rich details. • Organization that sustains the writer’s purpose and moves the reader through the piece. • Audience awareness techniques that engage and sustain the reader’s interest. • Effective use of varied sentence patterns. • Creative and novel language. • Errors in surface features that do not interfere with the reader’s understanding of the writer’s message.
Narrative Writing Unit Grade: 4th Genre: Narrative Social Studies Connection
Pre-Assessment Prompt • Directions: The teacher will write the following prompts on the board. • Each child will pick one topic to write a narrative story on, which should include: characters, a setting, conflict, events, solution, and conclusion. • I will remind the children that each story should have a beginning, middle, and end. • The following page are the topic choices for the pre-assessment.
Pre-Assessment Prompts • Choice #1: How did you meet your closest friend? • Choice #2: Describe a place you remember going to that was really fun. • Choice #3: Tell your life story from someone else’s point of view. • Choice #4: Describe a typical day in the life of your mother or father. • Choice #5: Describe the adventure from your most favorite vacation.
Prewriting Stage • Grouping Arrangements • Modeling: whole group instruction • Practice Activity: whole group (shared pen) • Assessment Activity: individual • Instructional Procedures • Modeling: A Day in the Life of a Seminole Woman is the name of the story I wrote as a model. The graphic organizer is below.
Prewriting Stage • Instructional Procedures Continued: • Practice Activity: We completed a graphic organizer on the beginning of a story about a Seminole man. • Assessment Activity: The students completed a story map on either Hopi/Pawnee man or woman. They were required to use the checklist to make sure they included everything. I used the rubric to grade the assessment activity. • Accommodations: • A student with poor motor skills used the computer during the assessment activity. • Two gifted and one high achieving student started assessment activity early.
Drafting Stage • Grouping Arrangements are the same as prewriting. During the assessment activity, the Spanish speaking children sat with me to confirm understanding of subject-verb agreement (accommodation). • Instructional Procedures • Modeling: Modeled story about the day in the life of a Seminole woman • Practice Activity: shared pen (interactive writing) with whole group • Assessment Activity: Students completed individual rough drafts from their story maps.
Revising Stage • The grouping arrangements are the same as prewriting. • Modeling: Main focus is to show students my paper with marks adding, deleting, changing, and rearranging words/sentences in paper. • Practice Activity: Main focus is to show kids how to add, delete, change, rearrange information using proofreaders’ marks. Make sure kids know not to worry about grammatical errors at this point.
Editing Stage • Grouping Arrangements are consistent throughout the entire writing process. I will make an accommodation during the editing stage for linguistic need children spending one-on-one time with each of them. • Instructional Procedures • Modeling: Main focus is to show students how to change grammatical errors using proofreaders’ marks. • Practice Activity: Shared pen activity (interactive writing) • Assessment Activity: Individual activity
Publishing Stage • Grouping arrangements are consistent throughout the writing process. • Instructional Procedures • Modeling: silhouette Indian with story attached (typed product) • Practice Activity: I type story while children dictate what to type/changes to make. • Assessment Activity: Individual publishing/computer use will take place.
Informational Unit Grade: 4th Genre: Informational Science Connection
Pre-Assessment Prompts • Directions: The teacher will write the following prompts on the board. Each child will pick one topic to write an informational essay on, which should include: an introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph. The purpose of the essay will be to inform. • Prompt #1: Write an essay about three major rules at the school you attend (explain each rule and why you like or dislike the rule). • Prompt #2: Write an essay about the life of a butterfly (previously taught).
Prewriting Stage • Grouping Arrangements: • Whole group for both modeling and practice activities will be most appropriate. Individual work during the assessment activity will be expected. • Instructional Procedures • Modeling: Precipitation • Practice Activity: Formation of Clouds • Assessment Activity: Water Cycle (graphic organizer)
Drafting Stage • Grouping arrangements are consistent throughout process. • Instructional Procedures: • Modeling: Show and review model, checklist, and proofreaders’ marks. • Practice Activity: shared pen with class (whole group instruction) • Assessment Activity: Individual (with help for linguistically challenged students).
Revising Stage • The grouping arrangements are consistent throughout writing process. • Instructional Procedures: • Modeling: I will show my model and correct revision marks adding, deleting, changing, and rearranging any words/sentences needed. • Practice Activity: Shared pen • Assessment Activity: Students must complete a checklist before turning in revised paper.
Editing Stage • Grouping arrangements are consistent throughout the writing process (except for practice activity – see below) • Instructional Procedures • Modeling: Will model editing by showing proofreaders’ marks and model paper • Practice Activity: Children will practice editing a paper in small groups. The paper will be the practice paper used from previous sessions. • Assessment Activity: Individual editing with self and one other person.
Publishing Stage • Grouping arrangements are the same. • Instructional Procedures • Modeling: Model of finished product • Practice: Make model of practice writing • Assessment: individual to see strengths and weaknesses of every student
