Writing Planning

Term 2, 2016

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Teacher Notes:

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Walt: group ideas into paragraphs.

Walt: write a recount

Experience:

• Have boards and carrots on desks for students to see as they entered class.
• Take students outside and give each student a carrot, board and knife.
• Direct students to carve their own carrot man!
• Take lots of photos showing each step of the experience.
• Links: 1 2

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Session 1:

• Share with students WALT for week and construct Success Criteria.
• Focus on reminding students that we will be writing a recount - explaining something that has happened.
• As a whole class brainstorm and share their creations.
• Then plan first paragraph with students.
• Send students to complete first paragraph.
• Pick one sentence to use as an example to add more detail.
• I saw carrots on the table.
• Direct students to add and alter their first paragraph.

Carrots!

Week 10.

Teacher Notes:

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Walt: group ideas into paragraphs.

Walt: write a recount

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• Share with students WALT for week and construct Success Criteria.
• Focus on reminding students that we will be writing a recount - explaining something that has happened.
• As a whole class brainstorm and discuss what happened during Paul Martin’s visit last week.
• Discuss with students what we need for an introduction. Brainstorm some different ideas for story starters.
• Direct students to write first paragraph.
• Pair, share paragraphs and discuss as a whole class good sentences.
• Repeat above process for other paragraphs.

Paul Martin Visit

Week 9

Teacher Notes:

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Walt: add detail to simple sentences.

Success Criteria: We will add detail to simple sentences.

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Session 1:

• Share with students WALT for week and construct Success Criteria.
• Model to students first example of how to add detail into a sentence.
• Discuss how it makes it more interesting and helps imagine it in our heads.
• Direct students to make a copy and complete the four sentences adding detail.
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Make it Interesting

Week 8.

Teacher Notes:

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Walt: group ideas into paragraphs.

Success Criteria: We will write a story which has a paragraph for each idea.

Experience:

• Have food (mousse & jelly) in cups hidden under a box in the class.
• Get students into pairs then one at a time they blindfold each other and taste one of the foods.
• Then get students to swap over.
• Take lots of photos showing each step of the experience.

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Session 1:

• Share with students WALT for week and construct Success Criteria.
• Focus on reminding students that we will be writing a recount - explaining something that has happened.
• As a whole class brainstorm and share their thought on the food.
• Then plan first paragraph with students.
• Send students to complete first paragraph.
• Pick one sentence to use as an example to add more detail.
• In class I saw boxes on the tables. It was Monday morning, I walked into class and saw some boxes, that weren’t there last week.
• Direct students to amend their first paragraph.
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Yum Yum!

Week 7.

Teacher Notes:

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Walt: group ideas into paragraphs.

Success Criteria: We will write a story which has a paragraph for each idea.

Session 2:

• Redo experience as a show for those students who missed it.
• Discuss with students what it tasted like.
• Present to students a pre-written sentence, then co-construct with students how to add in more detail to the sentence.
• In class I saw boxes on the tables. It was Monday morning, I walked into class and saw some boxes, that weren’t there last week.
• Send students to complete send paragraph remembering to use this adding detail.
• Pick one sentence from students to use as an example to add more detail.
• Direct students to amend their second paragraph.

Session 3:

• Carry on modelling sentences and allowing students time to write.
• Discuss with students how each paragraph is about one idea. Then get students to find a photo for each paragraph.
• Model to students how to copy and paste the writing and photos to their blog.
• Direct students to post to blog and blog.

Yum Yum!

Week 7.

Teacher Notes:

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Walt: write a descriptive narrative (paints a picture in the reader's mind)

Success Criteria: We will write a story which has juicy words and has paragraphs in this order: 1. Characters & Setting, 2. Problem, 3. Resolution

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Session 1:

• Share with students WALT for week and construct Success Criteria.
• Focus on reminding students what a Narrative story needs to include.
• Show students the image of Spider man trying to save the woman.
• Discuss with students the different emotions of the characters, from what we can see on their faces.
• Direct students to choose if they want this photo to be the beginning or ending of their story.
• Then students can pair, share / brainstorm their ideas.
• Direct students to make a copy of the planning doc.
• Give students 10min to plan.
• Then give students 20-30min to write for this first session.

Narrative - Will He Save Her?

Week 5.

Create a superhero

Week 4.

Teacher Notes:

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Walt: Use descriptive words to give our reader a clear image of what we are writing about.

Success Criteria: We will know we have learned this when we can write a paragraph with lots of juicy words in it.

Session 1:

• Share with students about the situation of Bear Bax
• Discuss with students how last week we described current superheros but this week we are going to create our own brand new superheros.
• Show video of Stan Lee
• Discuss and brainstorm that to create a new superhero we need to think of something original.
• How the superhero was created?
• What makes him a superhero?
• Get students to make a copy of the doc and brainstorm their superhero.

Session 2:

• Write character descriptions.
• Get students to write one sentence then discuss how we can add extra detail.

Monday

• Review with students what we are learning to do in our writing this week.
• Read to students my example paragraph.
• Direct students to pair together to finish, edit and finalise their writing.
• Share writing together before publishing
• Direct students to use new comic creator to create their superhero.

Superhero Descriptions

Week 3.

Teacher Notes:

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Walt: Use descriptive words to give our reader a clear image of what we are writing about.

Success Criteria: We will know we have learned this when we can write a paragraph with lots of juicy words in it.

Session 1:

• Show students a character description.
• Make a copy of the doc.
• Give student time to research and write notes.
• Discuss and create a list of descriptive words to describe the superheros.

Session 2:

• Group students into groups to explore what words they could use to describe to their superhero.
• Focus on students finding more exciting words to describe what their superhero looks like.

Superhero Speech Marks

Week 2.

Teacher Notes:

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Walt: Use speech marks correctly.

Success Criteria: We will know we have learned this when we can write a short story which includes correctly placed speech marks.

Session 1:

• Add to the walls string clothesline with a number of labels before them: Batman shouted. Spider Man exclaimed. Wonder woman whispered.
• Show students WALT presentation and form a success criteria as a whole class.
• Get students to hold a washing line in front of class. Use these speech sentences to experiment with students where punctuation should go.
• Work through these rules

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• Then in groups get students have to write out what a superhero might say then add it to their wall. Also add punctuation.
• Stop whole class and get student groups to check each others. Discuss what rules they need to know or don’t know.
• Get students to take a photo using their chromebook.
• Repeat with a different sentence.
• Take another photo - then direct to post to their blogs and add to blog log.

Superhero Speech Marks

Week 2.

Teacher Notes:

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Walt: Use speech marks correctly.

Success Criteria: We will know we have learned this when we can write a short story which includes correctly placed speech marks.

Session 2:

• Show students WALT presentation and remind students of WALT and our class success criteria.
• Get students into pairs then direct them to quiz each other on the class rules without looking. Give them these rules in pairs.
• Quizz a couple students in the whole class to see if they know all the rules.

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• Open writing doc and model to students how to write about the picture of what the superheros are saying to each other.
• Discuss and show students how to use correct speech marks and punctuation. �
• After first paragraph pair check each other’s work to see if they have completed our WALT.
• Share back as a whole class their paragraphs.
• Post to blog and blog log. Ensure this is done neatly.