One Step at a Time: A Lesson on Writing Procedural Text and the Power of Revising!
This lesson is designed to help young writers develop confidence in their writing abilities while being encouraged to edit and revise. Writers should develop revision skills to include detailed description while writing procedural text.
Be an Editing Star with Checklists and TPR!
Students review editing marks using TPR (Total Physical Response), while listening to a reading of a mentor text. Next, students use a brief procedural composition to edit for punctuation, capitalization, commas, and complete sentences. Students also use a checklist to edit a peer’s writing.
Too Hot for Main Idea
Students will collaborate and examine a reading passage to determine the topic and main idea of the passage.
Teacher Introducing Lesson
What Does the “Text Feature” Say?
Students will apply knowledge of text features to locate information in specific text to help better understand what they are reading.
Teacher reviews text features with the class
Retell Cafe
The lesson requires students to retell events of fictional stories in a logical order. Students work independently and in cooperative groups using manipulatives and a hands-on approach to sequence events in a story.
A Case of Character Traits
In literacy stations, students will describe how Camilla Cream’s internal and external character traits, motivations, and feelings changed throughout the fictional text, A Bad Case of Stripes.
Putting the Pieces Together
Students will use what they have learned about text features and the Answer—Cite—Explain (ACE) strategy, to infer meaning from nonfiction text.
Vocabulary Detectives
Students will be actively engaged in working on a Frayer Model to determine the definition of a vocabulary word, using the word in the correct context in a sentence, drawing an illustration of the word, and providing non-examples of the word. Through this activity they will be thinking critically, collaborating, as well as monitoring their own learning, as they are modeling their own understanding of an unfamiliar vocabulary word.
Who is My Neighbor?
Students will make inferences using evidence gathered from a collection of objects and a text.
Teacher going through description of inferring
Can You Prove It Detective?
In this lesson, the students will locate facts that are stated in a nonfiction text. The students will also learn how to locate facts within a fictional text.
Retell Me Something Good!
Using previous knowledge of the story elements: characters, setting, problem, and solution, students will determine the key events of a story and logically sequence those events in order to create a retelling.
Teacher working with students
Christmas Gift Surprise
Students will try to infer what an object inside a bag is by feeling and by listing descriptive details and thoughts related to their schema on a recording document.
Students feel object in the bag in order to guess what is inside.