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

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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.