“Room 9”
Writing Planning
Term 1 2019
Lesson Name: About Me for Blogs | Date: Week 1, Term 1 | Curriculum Level: 3 | |
Purpose: Update their blog description to match their interests a year older. Distinguish what personal information should/ should not be on their blog. WALT: write about ourselves on the internet in a cybersmart way. | Achievement Objective: Purposes and audiences • Show a developing understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences. | ||
Resources needed: | Template Examples | ||
Introduction of Lesson: | What is an About me/ Blog description? What is it for? Why do we need to update it every year? Show some blogs to show what section of the blog we are talking about | Why does it have to be “cybersmart” Brainstorm ideas about what should be left out using Discussion Doc | |
Writing time and prompts | Introduce template and how to use it ENSURE [File, Make a copy, put it in the right folder] DIscuss parts of the template
| Put it all together; (TEACH to copy and paste each section, then proofread it and ensure it makes sense) When finished make sure you have access to it through Hapara to then copy and paste it onto blog. Proofread and fix basic and sense errors before saving it on the students blog. | |
Lesson Name: Dear Mrs Sio | Date: Week 1, Term 1 | Curriculum Level: 3 | |
Purpose: constructs texts that demonstrate a growing awareness of audience and purpose through appropriate choice of content, language, and text form WALT: write to a specific audience. | Achievement Objective: Purposes and audiences • Show a developing understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences. | ||
Resources needed: | Template Examples | ||
Introduction of Lesson: | From reading your blog, I was intrigued to know more about you. As writers we’re always thinking how are we going to write - who is our audience? | | |
Writing time and prompts | Let’s read Mrs Sio’s letter.
Assessment: checking if students used the punctuation skills correctly when writing their letters, by checking for commas. Reflect: what effect does it have on the reader if there are errors in a letter? | Put it all together; (TEACH to copy and paste each section, then proofread it and ensure it makes sense) When finished make sure you have access to it through Hapara to then copy and paste it onto blog. Proofread and fix basic and sense errors before saving it on the students blog. | |
Lesson Name: Your Mission | Date: Week 3, Term 1, 2019 | Curriculum Level: 3 | |
Purpose: To have students engage in writing WALT: Use capitals (sentence, beginnings, Proper nouns), full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks with confidence.
| Achievement Objective: Show a developing understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts. By gaining control of text conventions, such as: capital letters and full stops; some basic grammatical conventions; volume, clarity, and tone; and simple symbols. (Lv1) | ||
Resources needed: | -chrome book, tv screen to show the slide | ||
Introduction of Lesson: | -Remind of our school korero 2019 “Kia pa te kotahi” -using the ‘fortnite’ to set the platform to start writing. By using the 3 P’s how can we work better together to complete the mission. | | |
Writing time and prompts | -By using the template, think of a title for your writing. -Then thinking of who are the characters that are going to be based in your story? - Looking at the setting - Plot - what is going to happen? Sequence of events: B-M-E. -Conflict & Resolution (what is the issue and how is it resolved?). Include dialogue and details of how you’re feeling. -Then start writing a plan. | | |
Lesson Name: Blog comment | Date: Week 3, Term 1, 2019 | Curriculum Level: 2 | |
Purpose: To have students engage in writing WALT: Use capitals (sentence, beginnings, Proper nouns), full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks with confidence.
| Achievement Objective: Show a developing understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts. By gaining control of text conventions, such as: capital letters and full stops; some basic grammatical conventions; volume, clarity, and tone; and simple symbols. (Lv1) | ||
Resources needed: | -chrome book, tv screen to show the slide | ||
Introduction of Lesson: | Few students were writing incorrect comment blogs. Reminder of expectation when leaving a comment blog | | |
Writing time and prompts | Go over the slide, reinforce ‘positive’ ‘thoughtful’ & ‘helpful’. What does that look like? -Go over each slide, talk with the students. Watch GI. video about leaving a comment. -Students’ exercise is to go over friends, class & clusters blog. Leave comment. | Toni was able to demonstrate how to start writing with our low learner writers. Used a model book, use the blend cards. Was able to write about ‘blog’ - ask the students what did they think?
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Week 4&5- Untie the human knot (RECOUNT)
WALT: use a range of vocabulary in our writing.
WALT: edit our work, checking that we have a range of simple, compound, and/or complex sentences in our writing.�
Monday - Ako 3 (whole space) launch
Show students the task. Explain that they will be writing a RECOUNT. 20 minutes of silent writing for all of Ako 3 (Note: see how this goes). .
Wednesday - Friday - conference with students in regards to the above WALT. In whole space/ literacy class meetings, refer back to the WALT, the work banks around the space.
By the end of Thursday students should have completed writing and be conferencing with a classmate, editing.
Lesson Name: Camp Highlight | Date: Week 6, Term 1 | Curriculum Level: 3 | |
Purpose: Record the memories and experiences we had on camp. WALT: write in paragraphs. | Achievement Objective: Purposes and audiences • Show a developing understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences. | ||
Resources needed: | Template | ||
Introduction of Lesson: | Discuss camp: Highlights, memories, fun. | Why does it have to be “cybersmart” Brainstorm ideas about what should be left out using Discussion Doc | |
Writing time and prompts | Introduce template and how to use it ENSURE [File, Make a copy, put it in the right folder] DIscuss parts of the template
| Check in regularly with class. Bring class down to mat to discuss each paragraph at various intervals. Give 20 mins writing, then return to mat etc. �Early Finishers Encourage a “Funny moments” short writing exercise. It should act as a bit of a reward rather than ‘more writing’ for finishing early. | |
Week 8- Types of Sentences
WALT understand simple, compound, and complex sentences.
WALT edit our writing, ensuring we have a range of sentence types.
When learners come to see me, they will be finding a piece of writing which they have written this year. In their group, they will be identifying a simple sentence, a compound sentence, and a complex sentence.
Lesson Name: Proofreading and editing | Date: Week 9, Term 1, 2019 | Curriculum Level: 2 | |
Purpose: To have students proofreading and edit work WALT: Use capitals (sentence, beginnings, Proper nouns), full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks with confidence.
| Achievement Objective: seeks feedback and makes changes to texts to improve clarity, meaning, and effect By gaining control of text conventions, such as: capital letters and full stops; some basic grammatical conventions; volume, clarity, and tone; and simple symbols. (Lv1) | ||
Resources needed: | -chrome book, tv screen to show the slide | ||
Introduction of Lesson: | Over the weekend, got to read our classblog and shocked at how punctuation, capital letters and spelling wasn’t included in their blogging. | | |
Writing time and prompts | -Who can tell me when do you use a capital letter? What punctuations can you use? Spelling - how do we find the correct spelling of the word? -use of full stops, ensure there is 2 spaces after and capital letter.
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kahoot - capital letters & punctuation | |