Teaching Writing
Are we having fun yet?
Personal Memoir/ Recount
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Getting started
Beyond “My summer holiday”
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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
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Mentor texts- immersion
What might the biographical sketch template
look like?
What might research template look like?
Pre-writing a timeline
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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?
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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
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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)
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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
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Success Criteria- grade 2 and 3
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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
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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
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Beginning
I included the 5 W’s in my beginning and my
timeline
Middle
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
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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
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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
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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
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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.