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    This lesson teaches 3rd grade students how to organize their writing using boxes and bullets. The lesson begins with an activity to show how organization is important. Students are then introduced to using a boxes and bullets sheet to plan their writing in an organized way, similar to a table of contents. As an example, the teacher demonstrates filling out the boxes and bullets sheet and shows how the written chapter corresponds to the planning sheet. Students then practice using the boxes and bullets sheet to plan and write their own chapter.

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    Esma Esa

    Lesson # _2___ of ___3__ Grade Level: 3

    Central Focus Organize writing by creating boxes and bullets

    3W2a: Introduce a topic and organize related information together


    Standard

    Learning Students will be able to plan/organize their writing by using a boxes


    Objective and bullets sheet for their chapter.

    Materials Boxes and Bullets Sheet

    The boxes and bullets sheet will help students jot down their facts
    Purpose and organize them in a coherent manor.

    Launch:
    Go to the classroom’s daily schedule and switch the order of some
    of the periods. (Specifically, put breakfast, going home, lunch,
    separate a double period, in random places of the day.) Then ask
    the students if the schedule makes sense to them.

    Guide the students through the discussion to arrive to the


    conclusion that organization matters in a schedule, like how it
    matters in our writing.

    Ask the students, what’s the importance of having a table of


    contents? (Get 2 - 3 answers)
    Instruction
    Introduction:
    Using the power-point to introduce to the students the “I can”
    statement for the lesson which would be, “I can use the table of
    contents to plan my writing.” Then, elaborate that by filling out a
    boxes and bullets sheet the same way they created their table of
    contents, it will help them learn how to organize their writing more
    efficiently.

    Mini-Lesson:
    [Slide 4] First, explain to the students what strong informational
    writing includes, which is a logical structure, strong opening
    sentence, that it covers the whole topic and doesn’t repeat
    information.

    [Slide 5] Then, explain to the students that in making a boxes and


    bullets for one of their chapters that’s organized like the table of
    contents, they’ll be able to apply these methods into their writing.

    [Slide 6] Demonstrate to the students how to plan a chapter using


    the boxes and bullets filled in as an example. Go through each
    bullet point starting from the title of the chapter to the last bullet
    point.

    [Slide 7] Then, show them the example of the written chapter using
    the boxes and bullets. The highlighted texts were extracted from the
    boxes and bullets from before to emphasize the use of the method.
    The text that’s underlined the elaboration of the related to the
    highlighted text.

    [Slide 8] Now, have the students write their chapter using a boxes
    and bullets sheets for that section.
    Learning Task
    (During this portion, keep slide 7 displayed as an example for
    students to reference back to as they work.)

    Have students turn to their partners and share their boxes and
    Closing
    bullets and how they used it to create their chapter.

    Boxes and Bullets filled


    Assessments
    Turn and Talk

    For struggling students, give them the boxes and bullets worksheet
    where they can draw an image that matches their fact to encourage
    Differentiation
    writing. They’ll be given the opportunity to write or draw in which
    ever order helps them best.
    Academic Table of contents
    Language

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