Washougal School District 112-06

Elementary Grade Level (K-2): 2nd

Professional Learning Communities

Content Area: Writing

Team ID: GAU-2 Date: Spring 2009

Title of Unit: Procedural Writing

Kindergarten, 1st Grade and 2nd Grade Teaching and Learning Guide
Learning Target: Write the steps for a How To paper.
1. Do students understand the learning target? Increase student understanding:

Check student understanding:

Example questions to ask students:

What are we learning today?
Why is it important?

Have students share the learning target in

their own words.

Have students talk about the learning

target

2. Skills and knowledge students will need in order to achieve this target:
Progression of learning:
1. Students have been exposed to and used narrative, personal narrative and descriptive types of writing.
2. Students know how to hook in a reader by using questions hooks and startling facts.
3. Students know how to tie the ending back to the beginning of a story.
4. Students can use a variety of verbs and adjectives in their writing.
5. Students will use previous writing skills to compose a procedural How To paper.
3. Creating the learning environment/Resources for learning
Posters; Pictures; Library of fiction and non-fiction books and materials; Word walls/banks; Charts; Sentence strips; Artifact collections
Instructional possibilities and student resources:
Mentor texts can include examples of kids cook books, science experiment books, drawing books
Real life examples: Toy directions (Legos with pictures), game rules (how to play Monopoly)
Models of procedural writing of kid activities (How to: skip rope, play hop-scotch, make microwave smores)
An outline of How To steps. What a How To paper needs.

Kindergarten, 1st Grade and 2nd Grade Teaching and Learning Guide
4. Differentiating for groups of learners
Group 1:
Students who already have an understanding
of this learning target and can work
independently in a group
Brainstorm next instructional steps
Create their own game or recipe and the
directions How To play or make them.
Add to a class list of books on How To

Group 2:
Students who need additional help

Group 3:
Students who need specific skill instruction

Brainstorm next instructional steps

Brainstorm next instructional steps

Organize a set of pre-written steps.

Student will orally give directions to a

teacher, older student or parent helper

Work with a partner to write steps for a given

activity. Write the steps on sentence strips so Student will follow a written How To
they can be rearranged and added to.
paper where one step is missing (cloze
activity) and they fill in the missing step.
Write a How To paper of their choice.
Organize a set of pre-written steps.
Write a simple set of steps for a How To
paper.

5. Classroom assessment: Given a prompt the students will write an accurate How To procedural paper.