PRIMARY WRITING
Unit One
Activity Name: Fall vs. Summer
Standard: Text Types and Purposes
Skill/Objective:
Using comparing words in writing
TEACHER INFORMATION
Whole group:
Prepare students for the theme of Fall Weather.
Coordinate with your cluster teachers or contact another CHILD teacher
in another part of the country. Build background knowledge with tapes,
videos, and books about weather, seasonal changes and weather
patterns. Focus on a specific weather topic, depending on available
resources. This pre-writing activity focuses on comparing and contrasting
different seasons and weather changes.
Technology: http://www.weatherwizkids.com/
http://www.theweatherchannelkids.com
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/profbooks/clou
dkey.pdf (cloud reproducible activity)
Webquests:
http://warrensburg.k12.mo.us/webquest/weather/index.htm
Materials Needed: Activity Sheet, videos, tapes, books about seasons and
different weather patterns, writing materials, construction paper.
Suggested Book Titles:
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judy Barrett
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
Forecast by Malcom Hall
What Will the Weather Be by Linda DeWitt
Weather Words and What They Mean by Gail Gibbon
Adjust for different levels: Students may require a partner at the Computer
Station to navigate. Create a folder marked “Weather” and bookmark
the sites to make them easy to find.
Green Sleeve Suggestion: Put one Activity Sheet into a Green Sleeve and
have students take turns recording words found together.
Primary Writing
STATION TASK CARD
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Writing Station
Activity Name: Fall vs. Summer
Standard: Text Types and Purposes
Skill/Objective: (COPY IN YOUR PASSPORT) Comparing
Directions:
1. Take one Activity Sheet per student.
2. Use the resource books to find words and draw pictures to
summer.
3. Now find words and pictures to describe fall.
4. Write sentences about the two different seasons.
5. Practice reading your sentences to a friend.
Challenge: Tell another student about your favorite season of
the year. Give at least three reasons why you like this season
best of all. Remember, there are four seasons in a year: fall,
winter, spring and summer.
WHEN COMPLETED
□ check
□ place in folder
□ hand in
□ other
Primary Writing
Activity Sheet
Fall vs. Summer
Name
Date
Fall
Summer
Fall is .... or Fall is not....
Summer is.... or Summer is not....
(Write on the back.)
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