SANGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Academic Year 2015-2016
Writing Instructional Calendar
Monday
3rd 6 Weeks
Nov. 9
Nov. 16
Nov. 23
Nov. 30
Dec. 7
Dec.14
Writing SE:
TEK 2.17 E
Mentor Text:
A Personal
Narrative Example
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
List of personal narrative ideas.
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 E
Mentor Text: Writing SE: TEK
2.17 E SKETCH instead of DRAW
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 C
Mentor Text: How to Book
An Expository text, Giving info.
Or explaining
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Publishing work. Stressing that
Proper nouns are capitalized and
locations are capitalized in their
writing pieces.
Writing SE: TEK 2.21 AVii
Mentor Text: NA
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Transitional words to use instead
of “then”
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 E
Mentor Text: I’m in charge of
Celebrations
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Publishing Celebrations
Personal Narrative on the
experience of Thanksgiving
Break.
Writing SE: TEK 2.18 A
Mentor Text: My Mama had a
dancing heart. / Owl Moon /
Wondrous words
Editing/Revising
(Writing)
Obj:Create a picture for the
reader. Prompt: Write about a
time you looked forward to an
event.
Verbs in the future as well. 2.21Aii
Wednesday
Tuesday
Essential Vocabulary: Events,
experiences, emotions, ideas,
personal narrative.
Editing/Revising (Writing)Obj:
Sketching instead of Drawing
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Model the use of pre-writing
strategies to write a personal
narrative. Prompt: Write an
essay about something
you are thankful for.
Essential Vocabulary: main
character, personal reaction,
setting, narrative.
Verb-tenses
and
verbconjugation. Irregular Verbs
Verbs in the future.
Essential Vocabulary: dialogue,
quotation marks, exclamation,
punctuation.
Essential Vocabulary:
Essential Vocabulary:celebration
Essential Vocabulary: Adjectives,
verbs, details, picture, reader,
describing.
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 E
Mentor Text: Punctuation takes
a Vacation.
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Punctuation/choosing a piece to
publish. Types of sentences.
Sentence Sort
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 C
Mentor Text: NA
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Learning basics of Revision.
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 B
Mentor Text: NA
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Use specific details.
Writing SE:
TEK 2.18 B Mentor
Text: Alphabet Poem
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Write short poems that convey
sensory details. (Alphabet Poem
of things we’re grateful for)
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 E
Mentor Text:
Personal
Narrative Text
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Model the use of PN elements
chart to write a personal
narrative. Prompt: Write an
essay about something
you are thankful for.
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 C
Mid-Six Weeks Assessment
Essential Vocabulary: Events,
experiences, emotions, ideas,
personal narrative. Sensory
words
Essential Vocabulary: Sketch,
draw.
Essential
Vocabulary:feeling,
injecting, zoom in, focus,
internal, external story.
Essential
Vocabulary:
punctuation, piece, publish,
spelling,
phonic,
spacing,
capitalization, grammar.
Essential Vocabulary: revision,
editing, details.
ACP k-5th grade
Writing SE: TEK 2.18 B
Writing SE:
TEK 2.18 B Mentor
Text: Alphabet Poem
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Write short poems that convey
sensory details. (Alphabet Poem
of things we’re grateful for)
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 C
Mentor Text: Three stories you
can read to your dog.
Editing/Revising (Writing)Obj:
Staying on topic. Continue the
draft/edit/revise process. The
students will be revising and
improving their writing by
replacing 3 nouns with a a
sensory
adjective-noun
combination.
Essential Vocabulary: Topic,
unfocused, re-read.
Thanksgiving Break
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 E
Mentor Text: NA
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Capitalization of proper nounslocations and names.
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 C
Mentor Text: NA
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Adding onto the middle of the
text. (Revising in the middle)
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 D
Mentor Text: N/A EXPOSITORY
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Show, not tell, to make writing
better.
Essential Vocabulary: Elements,
character,
setting,
event,
personal reaction, sensory details
Sentence
Sort/Nouns/Adjective/Verb Sort.
Rewrite 3 sentences, improving,
taking away…just simply write
them differently for variety.
Improve/rewrite 4 sentences
Essential Vocabulary:
Essential
letters
Vocabulary:
Capital
Essential Vocabulary: middle,
revising, adding.
ACP k-5th grade
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Academic Year 2015-2016
Friday
Thursday
Writing Instructional Calendar
Nov. 9
Nov. 16
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 B
Writing SE:
TEK 2.18 B Mentor
Text: Acrostic Poem
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Write short poems that convey
sensory details. (Acrostic Peom
with sensory details) – Pumpkin
shape or fall tree shape.
Essential Vocabulary: Elements,
character,
setting,
event,
personal reaction, sensory details
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 C
Mentor Text: NA
Editing/Revising (Writing)Obj:
Learn to focus writing by
zooming in, most important
part by adding/deleting details.
Thanksgiving Day
Essential Vocabulary: Topic,
unfocused, re-read., Focus,
zoom in.
Essential Vocabulary:
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 B
Mentor Text: Owl Moon
Editing/Revising (Writing)Obj:
Adding details.
Thanksgiving Break!
Essential Vocabulary:
detail.
Essential Vocabulary:
Sight words spelling test
2.2F, 2.2G, 2.23B
(spelling patterns with accents
and r-controlled vowels)
Essential Vocabulary:
Nov. 23
add,
Give thanks!!
Nov. 30
Dec. 7
Dec.14
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 E
Mentor Text: NA
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Spelling
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 C
Mentor Text: Shorcut
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Adding dialogue
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 E
Mentor Text: EXPOSITORY
Editing/Revising (Writing) Obj:
Practice different ways of Show,
Not Tell.
Essential Vocabulary: dialogue,
revision strips, characters.
Essential Vocabulary:
ACP k-5th grade
Writing SE: TEK 2.5 C
Mentor Text: Ten in a Bed.
Editing/Revising (Writing)Obj:
Synonyms for the word “good” –
En vez de “Bueno”
Essential Vocabulary: Action
poem, rhyme, synonym.
SIX WEEKS ASSESSMENT
FIELD TRIP
Essential Vocabulary:
Sight words spelling test
2.2F, 2.2G, 2.23B
(spelling patterns with accents
and r-controlled vowels)
Essential Vocabulary:
Writing SE: TEK 2.17 E
Mentor Text: To inform or explain
Editing/Revising
(Writing)Obj:
identify purpose of a lead
Essential Vocabulary: