| Deanna Mathews Grade 3--Language Arts |
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The students will choose a whale that they would like to learn more about. They will research their whale using the web site provided. They will then write, edit, and publish a simple paragraph about their whale. Language Arts Standards
Addressed
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Students write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea. Their writing shows they consider the audience and purpose. Students progress through the stages of the writing process (e.g., prewriting, drafting, revising, editing successive versions) Students will create a single paragraph:
Student
Activities
The students
will choose a whale that they would like to learn more about. They
will research their whale using the web site provided. They will
then write a simple paragraph about their whale.
Introductory Activity Read
the story Humphrey the Lost Whale A True Story by Wendy Tokuda and
Richard Hall. Ask students to make a prediction about what will happen
to Humphrey next. A video from Reading Rainbow is also available
which also has actual footage of the rescue.
Enabling Activities The students will go to a web site about whales and work with a partner to answer the questionnaire provided. (Teacher should make copies of the questionnaire ahead of time). http://www.zoomwhales.com/subjects/whales/activities/findit/whales.shtml Then have the students choose a specific whale from the site to write a paragraph about, and print the information about their whale. http://www.zoomwhales.com/subjects/whales/ Using the whale paragraph graphic organizer, the students will fill in each section to build their whale paragraph. (Three pages in attachments will form the whale). For the topic sentence click here. For the first two details click here. For
the last detail and the conclusion click here.
Culminating Activities Students will use the information they found on the web site to write a paragraph about the whale that they chose. It can be handwritten or word processed. This can be put together to form a class book about whales. A web site that has matching, concentration, and word search games can be used as a culminating activity. http://www.quia.com/jg/65536.html
Rubric
The
students were asked to write a paragraph as a pre-test. After using
the web site, their paragraphs about whales were scored on the same rubric.
Introductory Activity http://www.zoomwhales.com/subjects/whales/ http://www.zoomwhales.com/subjects/whales/activities/findit/whales.shtml http://www.whalecenter.org/audioarchive.htm Humphrey the Lost Whale A True Story by Wendy Tokuda and Richard Hall Humphrey the
Lost Whale A True Story by Wendy Tokuda and Richard Hall (VIDEO) Reading
Rainbow
Enabling Activity http://www.zoomwhales.com/subjects/whales/ Paragraph Organizer
Culminating Activities http://www.quia.com/jg/65536.html
Woodbridge
Fundamental School
mathews72@home.com Last Revised: 05/06/01 |
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Shows
clear understanding for the rules of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling;
clear, organized sentence structure; expresses clear thoughts.
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understanding for rules of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling through
improved simple sentences; improved ability to express clear thoughts.
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some understanding for rules of capitalization, punctuation and spelling
through developing sense of simple sentences; developing ability to express
clear thoughts.
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little to no understanding for rules of capitalization, punctuation, and
spelling; difficulty expressing clear thoughts.
