Week 5

Writing: Elementary School

September 26, 2022

September 28, 2022
 Housekeeping
Due Today: Reading Response, Week 5
Article of the Week
• This Week: Emma Grace & Jamison
• Next Week: Leah & Abi
Reading Response, Week 6
• Due Monday, October 3rd
Keep Updating Writer’s Website
 Overview
Objectives & Goals:
• (L.5) Motivation and Engagement
• (L.17) Composition
Activities:
• Take Notes in Writer’s Website
• Kagan Structure: Turn and Talk - Discussion
• Kagan Structure: Team Mats - Discussion
Book Tasting: Informational
Assessment:
• Exit Ticket
 Learning Outcomes
Students will practice techniques to
encourage and assess literacy motivation and
engagement, selecting/using research-
supported instructional practices to develop
meaningful interactions with individuals
and information, combined with
experiences. (L.5)
 Learning Outcomes
Students will select, craft, and assess instructional
methods that develop written composition abilities in
a variety of motivating and engaging contexts,
including writing across the disciplines. Students will
explore the following instructional practices: setting
writing goals, offering/ receiving/ incorporating
feedback, engaging the writing process and strategies,
and studying models and non-models of writing for a
variety of purposes and audiences. (L.17)
Kagan Structures

Monday:
• Turn and Talk
Live link is posted in the
Content section of
Elearning.
Kagan Structures

Wednesday:
• Team Mat
Live link is posted in
the Content section of
Elearning.
Article of the Week
Monday
Emma Grace
Rescheduled to Monday, October 3rd.
Article of the Week
Wednesday
Jamison
Rescheduled to Wednesday, October 5th..
 More Narrative Writing
• Narrative: The structure of fiction or nonfiction events
– the architectural design of the story or series of
stories that are often open ended.
• Story: The sequence of events (beginning, middle, and
end) that includes characters, plot, problem, and
resolution.
• Fiction Narratives: Stories that come from the
imagination, such as realistic fiction, science fiction,
fantasy, tall tales, and dystopia.
 More Narrative Writing
• Nonfiction Narrative: Stories that are based on facts,
such as memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, and
diaries.
• Author Side Note: CCSS recognized the need for more
high-quality nonfiction.
The author believes school should prepare students for life… the
kind of life they find between the pages of fiction texts as they pose
questions of ethics, responsibility, moral dilemmas, integrity and
honor. Teaching more nonfiction should not cut back on teaching
narrative.
 The Power of Narrative
• Effective method to explore any topic
• Tells a story
• Entertains and teaches
• Provides information
• Creates an argument
• Makes meaning of life
• through stories (learn about our past,
push forward on our present, dream
about the future)
 Mediocre writers borrow.
Great writers steal.
T. S. Eliot
In Chapter 4 of The Writing Thief, the author matches up
the Key Qualities of Narrative Writing to applicable
Mentor Texts. This book is a valuable resource for
teaching elementary writing. Our students need help with
narrative writing. They need superb models in narrative
writing just as much as they do with informational,
argument (opinion), and all other types of writing.
 Narrative Teaching Resources
In the Content section of
Elearning, you will find two
teaching PowerPoint
Presentations. They are called
PPP Narrative for Students
and PPP Narrative Story
Outline. Both presentations
would prove useful in the
Writing Classroom.
What questions
do you have?
 Keep in Mind…
Quote from Cultivating Genius:
Schools and instruction have
not helped students achieve
at their highest potential--
and yet, these institutions an
systems continue without
critical examination or
challenge.
 Keep in Mind…
Quote from Cultivating Genius:
“Close and accurate thinking,
and to acquire a facility of
classifying and arranging,
analyzing and comparing our
our ideas on different
subjects” could easily be
language written in the CCSS
or other learning standards.
Genre Writing
 Informational Writing
Informational Text – To explain, describe, or inform
These traits are used to construct Informational Writing.
ü Ideas
ü Organization
ü Voice
ü Word Choice
ü Sentence fluency
ü Conventions
ü Presentation
Writing should always be purpose driven and well written.
 Informational Writing
Informational Mentor Texts informs, explains,
describes, or defines the subject for the reader in such
a way that is credible, clear, and captivating.
Informational writing is literature when it is well
written.
Writing to inform and explain has traditionally been
expository. Common Core calls it
informational/explanatory. This author calls it
informational.
 Informational Writing
Good informational writing should not read like a
textbook or an encyclopedia entry. It is not just a
presentation of facts. It should read like literature. It
should be literature.
The energy behind the process of discovery should
show and excite not only the writer, but the reader as
well. When writing about things that matter, courage
and momentum will keep it interesting and engaging.
 Informational Writing
Writing strong, informational pieces is a key to college
and career readiness. Informational writing is found
everywhere.
In Chapter 3 of The Writing Thief, the author matches
up the Key Qualities of Informational Writing to
applicable Mentor Texts. This book is a valuable resource
for teaching elementary writing. Our students need help
with informational writing. Informational writing is
difficult, and students need superb models to help them
with the intricacies of this genre.
What questions
do you have?
Informational Genre
Book Tasting
 The following books would be perfect.
For instructions, use the link in the Content area
of Elearning.
Few Parisians were willing to risk
their own lives to help. Yet during
that perilous time, many Jews
found refuge in an unlikely place--
the sprawling complex of the
Grand Mosque of Paris. Not just a
place of worship but a
community center, this hive of
activity was an ideal temporary
hiding place for escaped
prisoners of war and Jews of all
ages, especially children.
Award-winning author Elizabeth
Partridge leads you straight into
the chaotic, passionate, and deadly
three months of protests that
culminated in the landmark march
from Selma to Montgomery in
1965. Focusing on the courageous
children who faced terrifying
violence in order to march
alongside King, this is an inspiring
look at their fight for the vote.
Stunningly emotional black-and-
white photos accompany the text.
Featuring the true stories of 35 women
creators, ranging from writers to inventors,
artists to scientists, Little Dreamers:
Visionary Women Around the
World inspires as it educates. Readers will
meet trailblazing women like Mary Blair,
an American modernist painter who had a
major influence on how color was used in
early animated films, actor/inventor Hedy
Lamarr, environmental activist Wangari
Maathai, architect Zaha Hadid, filmmaker
Maya Deren, and physicist Chien-Shiung
Wu. Some names are known, some are
not, but all of the women had a lasting
effect on the fields they worked in.
It is the summer of 1869, and trains,
crews, and family are traveling
together, riding America’s brand-new
transcontinental railroad. These pages
come alive with the details of the trip
and the sounds, speed, and strength of
the mighty locomotives; the work that
keeps them moving; and the thrill of
travel from plains to mountain to
ocean. Come hear the hiss of the
steam, feel the heat of the engine,
watch the landscape race by. Come
ride the rails, come cross the young
country!
Hilariously illustrated, this
celebration shows us the foibles,
quirks and humanity of forty-two
men who have risen to one of
the most powerful positions in
the world.
Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo
asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and
artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–
Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law
clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books, letters,
music, and art from Africa and the African
diaspora and bring to light the achievements of
people of African descent through the ages.
When Schomburg’s collection became so big it
began to overflow his house (and his wife
threatened to mutiny), he turned to the New York
Public Library, where he created and curated a
collection that was the cornerstone of a new
Negro Division. A century later, his
groundbreaking collection, known as the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,
has become a beacon to scholars all over the
world.
Listen up! You've all heard about the
great men who led and fought during the
American Revolution; but did you know
that the guys only make up part of the
story? What about the women? The girls?
The dames? Didn't they play a part? Of
course they did, and with page after page
of superbly researched information and
thoughtfully detailed illustrations,
acclaimed novelist and picture-book
author Laurie Halse Anderson and
charismatic illustrator Matt Faulkner
prove the case in this entertaining,
informative, and long overdue homage to
those independent dames!
 Exit Ticket:
Monday
Wednesday

Prompt:
Located in the Discussion Board of
Elearning.