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Morning Warm Up

This resource explores the use of writing in non-fiction texts, including text features, main idea and details, comparing and contrasting, and writing from different perspectives. It also provides examples and checklists to help students improve their writing skills.

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Morning Warm Up

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  1. Morning Warm Up • Read Frogs at Risk. • Then complete the graphic organizer.

  2. Incorporating Writing into Common Core Standards Carrie Chambers chambersc@hcboe.net Anna McCarter mccartera@hcboe.net

  3. Agenda • Text Features of Non-Fiction • Incorporating Writing with Non-Fiction Text • Creating Checklist to assist in student writing • Examples of Writing with Fiction Text

  4. Text Features of Non-Fiction Text

  5. Incorporating Writing into Non-Fiction Text • Main Idea and Details • Compare and Contrasting • Writing from a perspective from a specific non-fiction person/animal/thing

  6. Main Idea and Details

  7. Main Idea and Details…

  8. Comparing and Contrasting

  9. Writing from a perspective from a specific non-fiction person/animal/thing

  10. Writing Checklists What is the purpose of giving students a writing checklist? What key elements should be included in a writing checklist?

  11. Developing Writing Checklist Group by grade level Choose a genre or skill for writing Discuss and Develop a checklist with your group

  12. Incorporating Writing in Fiction • Write from a Character’s Perspective • Character Analysis/Sketch • Cause and Effect • Story Summaries • Comparing and Constrasting Novel and Movie/Characters • Rewrite the story ending • Book Letters • Create newspaper articles about characters or story events

  13. Write from a Character’s Perspective

  14. Character Sketch

  15. Comparing and Contrasting

  16. Comparing and Contrasting

  17. Book Letters

  18. Websites for Resources • http://teacher.depaul.edu/Nonfiction_Readings.htm • http://www.readworks.org/books/passages • http://teacher.depaul.edu/Nonfiction_Reading_Resources.html • http://www.duke.edu/web/pfs/lessons/languagearts/lareadingnonfiction.html • http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html • http://teacher.depaul.edu/mainnavigator.html • http://teacher.depaul.edu/html/Guide_Assess_Nonfiction.html

  19. http://www.readworks.org/books/passages

  20. http://teacher.depaul.eduNonfiction_Readings.htm

  21. http://teacher.depaul.edu/Nonfiction_Reading_Resources.html

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