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 Introduction
The students will be writing
a creative story about a pet dog or cat. They will visit the student
web page and look at the web site links. The students will choose
which pet they want to write about and look for descriptive words to put
into their story. The story will be written with descriptive words
about their pet of choice, proper penmanship, appropriate punctuation,
proper sentence structure and characters.
Subject : Language
Arts
Topic: Writing
Grade Level: First
Student Lesson name and URL:
http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~tkuhtz/student/
Standards
Addressed
First Grade
Creative Story Writing
Writing
Strategies
Student's 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.
Organization
and Focus
1. Select a focus when
writing
2. Use descriptive words
when writing
3. Use of characters
4. Writing should show
a beginning, middle and end
Penmanship
1. Print legibly
2 . Spacing between words
Students will understand
the use if descriptive words and how to write a beginning, middle and end
to a story.
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Student
Activities
1. Students will
do a story map for the book read to the class.
2. Homework- Give
your students the your wed page address so they may log in at home and
look at the student wed page and go to the linked animal web sites.
3. Follow up-Take your
students to the school computer lab to go visit the web page again.
Give them time to play and decide what animal they are planning on writing
about. Once their animal has been chosen, they need to look at that
animals wed site and look for details in their animal.
4. Students will
then complete a story plan worksheet to help them work through their story
before they begin the writing. This will help them with choosing
characters and what will happen in the beginning, middle and end of their
story. Teacher may model the story plan worksheet before students
begin if they have never used it in class before.
5. Students will
then begin to write their story using their story plan.
6. Students are
expected to follow their story plan by using characters, having a
beginning, middle and end to the story, physical details of their characters,
and use of all writing rules: correct use of capitalize letters,
correct punctuation, correct spacing between words and their neatest handwriting.
7.
The teacher will then read the students papers looking for all expectancies.
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Introductory
Activity
1. The teacher will
review with the class what a character is in a story and what happens in
the beginning, middle and end of a story.
2.
The teacher will read an Arthur picture book to the class. Individually,
the class will complete the story mapping worksheet. The teacher
will use an overhead to work with the class to model the correct way to
complete the story mapping worksheet.
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Culminating
Activity
The students will
write a story using descriptive words and using a beginning, middle and
end.
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Assessment
Rubric
4. Shows
clear understanding of writing a beginning, middle and end to a story,
writes with descriptive words, uses proper punctuation and legible penmanship.
3. Shows
an understanding for writing a beginning, middle and end to a story, usage
of descriptive words, proper punctuation and legible penmanship.
2.
Shows some understanding for writing a beginning, middle and end, use of
some descriptive words, proper punctuation and legible penmanship.
1. Shows
little to no understanding of how to properly write a beginning, middle
and end to a story, little to no descriptive words, punctuation and illegible
penmanship.
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Results
The students enjoyed visiting
the web page at home and at school. They were able to list
descriptive words from the pictures they saw on the computer and completed
the story map accurately. With the use of the words and the story
mapping, the students stories turned out to be very creative. The
more visual cues first graders have, the better the results.
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Web
Resources & Supplementary Materials
Introductory Activity
Read the story Aruthers
Pet Business by Marc Brown. Give the students a Story Map worksheet
to be completed. The teacher should have one to use on the overhead.
Enabling Activity
The students are to visit
the student web page and look at the linked web pages. The students
should chose their pet and looking for descriptive words about that
pet. Next, the students will be completing the My Story Plan worksheet
to lay out their story. Here is are the students wed sites: www.cutecats.com
and www.hideandseekpuppies.com.
For a fun web site to visit, go to
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/arthur/.
Culminating Activity
The students will write a
creative story about their pet and use the story plan to help. They
must use descriptive words to describe their pet, characters and the rules
of writing.
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Brown Elementary
250 Trestle
way
Roseville,
Ca 95678
Terri Kuhtz
TerriKuhtz@yahoo.com
Last Revised:
08/11/2000
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