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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
Grade 6: an “autobiography” in the role of a historical or contemporary person, based on research
Pre-writing a biographical sketch
Mentor texts- immersion What might the biographical sketch template
look like? What might research template look like?
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?
Steps to Teaching the Writing Process
Immersion
What’s Next?
Activity with a partner to match the titles of categories with their definition
Planning
R- Role of the writer
A- Audience
F- Form
T- Topic
S- Strong verb: purpose for writing
Why We Write
Social purpose: to recount, to persuade, to entertain, to describe, to instruct, to explain
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)
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
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
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
Success Criteria- grade 4
Beginning I included the 5 W’s in my beginning and my
timelineMiddle
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
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
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
Meanwhile….
Wiki
http://southeast-onederfulwikkispaces.com
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.
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.
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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