Enrichment Activity for Writing Submitted By: Darcy Stallone

EDRL 442: Teaching Literacy 1 Nevada State College - Fall 2012 Instructor: Karen Powell

Lesson Title: Enrichment Activity for Writing 1st Grade CCSS: W.1.8

Submitted By:

Darcy Stallone

B. Summary of the Lesson Plan This lesson will help students utilize descriptive words when describing settings and events and to help put their thoughts into words on paper. This lesson should take about 45 minutes, and if necessary can continue into next day or can be completed in students free time if other work is done early. C. Student Population Grade level 1st Grade Skill level Above level learners Grouping Small groups of 3-5 Groups are determined by their overall literacy level D. Materials Crayons Writing paper Drawing paper White board and markers Copy of the story

E. Objectives Common Core State Standard W.1.8 With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

Learning Targets Knowledge Target Students must know how to gather information from different sources to answer a question. Reasoning Target Students must determine what information is needed to answer a question.

F. Procedure 1. Create a word list based on one of the settings from the story (if needed, remind students that a setting ells where the story takes place). 2. Write a description of a setting. The students will do a description of a setting from the story read as well as a setting from one of their favorite stories. 3. List questions on board and explain that their descriptions should answer the questions using 3-5 complete sentences.

EDRL 442 Teaching Literacy 1 ASSIGNMENT: Enrichment Activity for a Writing Lesson

Fall 2012

Karen Powell- Instructor

Lesson Title: Enrichment Activity for Writing 1st Grade CCSS: W.1.8

Submitted By:

Darcy Stallone

Where is this place? What does it look like? What time of year is it? What kinds of things can you see, hear and smell?

4. Have the students illustrate/color the two settings they have described. 5. Have the students check their work for spacing and sizing of the written work. G. Assessment The student will stay on topic in their writing and illustrations and do this only for a setting and not to actually tell the full story. There is no rubric for this assignment. This is only a reading assessment and the student will demonstrate that he/she can gather the information needed from the story to fully answer the questions to correctly set up the settings. Reflection Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest to teach? To teach students how to gather the information to answer questions that provides details to their stories. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the most challenging to teach? The hard part for me would be to actually get the students to put their thoughts into written words on paper. Also to help the students figure out how to put their imagination from their mind, to the paper. What lesson or concept should be taught prior to this lesson? Students need to know action words and descriptive words. How will you follow up this lesson? Students will also be asked to write in their personal journals on a regular basis with different topics. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? Until I use it, I am not sure what to change however, maybe find other topics that I can apply this to as well. Also, maybe find other ways for the students to come up with different parts of stories other than asking them questions and having them just answer. I would like for them to be able to generate their own, but that is yet to come. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? Trying to get the lesson to flow smoothly as it seems a little choppy was a bit difficult.
EDRL 442 Teaching Literacy 1 ASSIGNMENT: Enrichment Activity for a Writing Lesson Fall 2012 Karen Powell- Instructor

Lesson Title: Enrichment Activity for Writing 1st Grade CCSS: W.1.8

Submitted By:

Darcy Stallone

EDRL 442 Teaching Literacy 1 ASSIGNMENT: Enrichment Activity for a Writing Lesson

Fall 2012

Karen Powell- Instructor