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Day 1 Monday
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Monday/Fridays: Centers
Tuesdays/Wednesdays/Thursdays: Writers Workshop
Lesson Focus
Day 2 Tuesday
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Materials
Lesson
-Tell students that today we will begin a new writing piece and
work on drafts as well as do a read aloud on a Dr. Seuss Book.
-Ask the students what they believe a draft is. (Small discussion)
-Review Ideas trait.
-Model to students how to write a draft based on an Idea ex) My
German Shepard, Toby. While writing a draft make sure to make
lots of grammatical errors and for it to be unorganized.
-Explain to the class that when forming a draft we dont concentrate
on perfection. We dont focus on the mistakes we do but getting an
Idea written down with details.
-Place all students in the carpet. Read the Dr. Seuss Book.
-While reading dont show the pictures to the student, instead ask
them to close their eyes and picture details read from the story.
-Ask students to draw what they pictured using lots of details.
-Afterwards, students will write about what they pictured while
listening to the story.
-Remind students to not worry about spelling for now because its a
draft.
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First
Dr. Seuss Book
Paper
Pencil
Writing Folders
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Day 3 Wednesday
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Lesson
Activity
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Lesson Focus
Day 4 Thursday
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Materials
Lesson
Activity
First
Teacher Draft Revised from previous day
Paper
Pencil
Erasers
Peer Editing Checklist
Writing Folders
Tell students that today we will be editing our revised drafts.
-Ask students if they know what editing is. (Small discussion)
-Place teacher revised draft from yesterday to revise.
-Add punctuation and sound out words for correct spelling. (Model)
-Remove certain punctuation that dont belong there.(Model)
-Read paper out loud to catch any mistakes. As well as:
-Read the paper with expression. (Model)
-Students will go to their seats and select a story from their folder
to edit.
-Add punctuations/remove punctuations.
-They will read their papers with expression to a partner to catch
any mistakes.
-Partners will fill out peer editing checklist.
-Partners will give feedback/checklist to student.
-Students will write final draft (Publish)
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Day 5- Friday
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