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Topic/Theme/Unit: Unit 1 (Writers learn strategies for writing effective personal narratives) Celebration (Writers celebrate
their accomplishments and writing by creating blogs to share their writing with others.)
Standards Addressed:
Unit 1 covers these standards:
Writing
Speaking/Listening
5.3
5.1
5.3a
5.4a
5.3b
5.1b
5.3c
5.1c
5.3d
5.5
5.3e
5.4
5.5
5.9
5.10
Language
5.1c
5.1d
5.2
5.2e
5.3a
Essential Questions (these stay the same for the entire unit):
How do writers use mentor text to improve the quality of their writing?
How can ideas be generated and selected for personal narrative writing?
How do writers focus & sequence ideas in a draft?
How can writers revise & edit to improve the quality of their writing?
Purpose:
Content: I can celebrate my writing by creating a blog..
Language: celebrate, creating, blog
Social: I can share my writing with others and respond to their writing in an appropriate manner.
Materials/Resources:
Final draft of personal narrative
Chromebooks
FOCUSED INSTRUCTION
(3a, 3d)
4.
5.
6.
7.
How will you
Make lesson purposes (content
GUIDED INSTRUCTION
(3b, 3c)
How will you
Know that each student thought
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
(3b, 3c)
How will you
Determine the complexity of the
task?
Formative:
Jot-Lot Post-its
One-on-one conferencing
information
Observations during partner
sharing
Summative:
*Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey - Better Learning Through Structured Teaching, 2014.
Self Reflection (Complete this AFTER the lesson is over)