WR022.a
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Writing Standard 2a - Level 2
Write in a variety of modes such as: short personal narratives, friendly letters, and brief expository pieces (informational paragraph or how-to paragraph) for the purpose of informing or explaining to a variety of audiences.
Standard in Kid Friendly Language
I can use a date, greeting, body, closing, and signature to write a friendly letter.
I can write directions with sequence and transitions.
I can use facts and an organizer to write a report.
I can use a planner or a camera to help me write.
Standard Unwrapped
KNOW Students will know how to write a friendly letter, personal narrative, a how-to paragraph, and nonfiction paragraph.
ABLE TO DO Students will be able to write a friendly letter including all five parts, a how-to paragraph in correct sequence using transitions to connect sentences, and a nonfiction paragraph by organizing information.
Instructional Strategies
- Expository Writing
- Narrative
- Poetry
- Strategies for teaching poetry patterns This site is especially for elementary students.
- Other
Assessment Strategies
- Friendly Letter
- 2nd Quarter Common Assessment
- Personal Narrative
- Common Assessment
- How-to Paragraph
- 2nd Quarter Common Assessment
- Nonfiction Paragraph
- 4th Quarter Common Assessment
- Generic letter rubric
Resources
- Friendly Letters
- Truck Driver Pen Pal This site is run by a nonprofit organization using professional truck drivers as pen pals to help educate elementary students.
- Letter Writing Resources This site provides information on editing letters, letter rubrics, stationary, lesson plans, and student samples.
- Pen Pals This site provides resources to sign up with a pen pal.
- Expository Paragraphs
- Poetry
- Fairy Tales
Projects and Activities
Strategies for Special Needs Students
- For students with difficulty using the correct story elements in their writing, you may follow this lesson structure:
a. Define the story elements.
b. Give examples of each element.
c. Model the use of the “Story Planner” form (see link to form below-in blue) Your form should include the essential elements required for the type of story student is writing.
d. Model how to write notes on the “Story Planner” form in the column entitled “Write As I Plan.”
e. Model checking off each element while writing your story.
f. Give the students the “Story Planner” form each time they write a story. Cue the students to use the form while they write, and monitor this process.
Writing Planner Form for expository writing
Click on link below for a simple graphic organizer that may help students organize their thinking.
- "Colorful Cubes"-Use colored blocks to represent story elements to make this abstract idea more concrete. Each color can represent a different element ex; Topic sentence-green, Supporting details-yellow, Ending sentence-red.
- Or use Legos to have students show story elements as they are different shapes and sizes to represent major or minor parts of the story.
- "Active Writer"- using highlighter tape students highlight elements in the story as they include them in their stories. Can use different color for each element.
- "Roll the Cube"-Collect milk cartons from the cafeteria. Use them to make cubes. Cover the cubes with paper. On each side of the cube, write a different extender (see below). Student rolls cube and integrates the extender/prompt from the cube into his writing. Possible prompts are: Suddenly..., Just then..., If only..., Perhaps..., Could it be..., Afterward..., Just in time..., Saved by..., In other words..., Once again..., Through the eyes of..., Surprisingly..., In the beginning..., The next day...
- "Silent Sort"-Write story elements on sticky notes. Hand them to students. Students come to the table and lay their down their words. They must sort them with no talking into piles of like story elements (all the setting notes together, etc.). Teacher does not tell them the sorting rule so students must discover it. Can do this with any skill they need to practice sorting.
