Aiken County Public Schools
Division of Instruction and Accountability
Grade 1 Math Writing Task
Content standards
(What students will
write.)
Title: Lunch Time
Corresponding CCSS
Writing Standards
(How students will
write.)
W.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply
some facts about topic, and provide some sense of closure.
Learning Objective
Use information to organize, represent, and interpret data in a graph.
Essential Question
How can data be organized, represented, and interpreted?
Stimuli
Teacher Directions
Task
1.MD.4 Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask
and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each
category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
Source 1: math toolbox – manipulatives such as cubes, counters, rulers, etc.
Source 2: graph – Lunch Time graph
Whole Group
1. Read the task and discuss favorite foods with
the class. (1)
Small Group Work
1. Provide the tally mark recordings and blank
graph (source 2)
2. Prompt students to examine the tally mark
recordings.
3. Guide students to have collaborative
discussion about completing the task. (2)
Independent Work
4. Allow students time to complete the writing
prompt.
Your first grade class gets to decide what will be on
the lunch menu Friday. You have asked everyone in
the class what their favorite food is and recorded the
information with tally marks. Your class favorite
must be put into a graph to show the cafeteria.

Writing Prompt
Differentiation Options:
(1)Increase the relevance
of the task by completing
a class tally chart of their
personal favorite foods,
and drawing a bar graph
to match.
(2)Facilitate
the process
by asking guiding
questions using the class
chart.
Encourage the use of
cubes to allow students to
use one to one
correspondence when
determining how many
blocks to color in.
(3)
Use the tally marks to help you record the
information on the graph.
 Circle the food choice on the graph that had
the most votes;l.
Explain how you used the tally mark information to complete your graph. Use
numbers, words, and pictures to show your reasoning.
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Division of Instruction and Accountability
Source 2
Class Favorites
pizza
nachos
PB &J
spaghetti
pizza
nachos
IIII
IIII II
II
III
PB & J
spaghetti
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