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Date: Aug. 20, 2006
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Grade: 2
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Teacher Name: Carole Trifoglio
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Subject: Language Arts
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1. Topic-
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Personal Narrative Writing.
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2. Content- California Content
Standard 2.1. “Write a
brief narrative based on student’s experiences. Move through logical sequence of
events. Describe setting, characters, objects, events in detail.
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Students will write about their first day of
Kindergarten or first day of school.
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3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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1. Students will make a timeline of events of that day
in their life.
2. Students will write a rough draft and systematically add sensory
details, adjectives and some dialogue.
3. After peer and adult editing, students will publish.
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4. Objectives-
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1. Students will think about audience.
2. Students will put events in sequence.
3. Students will describe events in detail.
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5. Materials and Aids-
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Paper, pencils, erasers, crayons.
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6. Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
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1. Teacher writes a large timeline with the class on
another topic, such as the teacher's first day of teaching.
2. Class helps make sure events are in order.
3. Teacher and class discuss events are all things that really happened in
this kind of personal narrative.
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B. Development-
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Use 4-6 days to go through each step. Timeline of
events, adding details, adding dialogue. Model this with the teacher's own
story.
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C. Practice-
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1.Day 1 class starts a
timeline, may need to finish it on Day 2.
2. After timeline, class adds detail and adjectives as teacher modeled.
3. Class adds dialogue as teacher modeled.
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D. Independent Practice-
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Daily writing on this project throughout its steps until
completed.
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E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-
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1. With ELL students and those who are struggling,
teacher or parent volunteer will need to help them get ideas down on paper.
2. These children could start with drawings on the timeline and then
describe drawings to an adult for help in writing about the events.
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F. Checking for understanding-
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1. Walking around, see if the children are doing the
step that we are on, such as putting events in order.
2. When peer editing is going on, listen in on conversations around the
room.
3. During adult editing, see how it all is coming together.
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G. Closure-
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1. Have kids work independently for a few days during
writer's workshop to publish the story with a cover, illustrations and
final copy with "mainly" correct spelling and mechanics. Share
stories with class and with their Kindergarten teacher if they're at our
school and if they want to.
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7. Evaluation-
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1. How did the writing turn out?
2. Was this a topic of high interest?
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8. Teacher Reflection-
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Additional practice will be narrative prompts that will
be given about once a month and worked on for 4-5 days each. Some prompts I’m
considering:
*Write about a person you admire
*Write about your favorite place to go
*Write about your favorite things to do
*Write about your favorite toy or game
*Write about what would happen if aliens took over our
school for a day
*Write about what you would do if you woke up one day with
a super-human power. What power
would it be and how would you use it?
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