G3+Writing+Unit+1


 * P.S. 208 The Alain L. Locke Magnet School for Environmental Stewardship 2012-2013 **
 * Grade 3 Writing Unit Begins Sept 6th - Sept 28th **
 * Unit 1: Creating a Writing Community **

**Essential Question: **What do writers do? **Enduring Understanding: **Writers learn certain procedures and behaviors that will eventually lead to writing independence. **Unit Performance Task **: Quick-Write **Common Core Learning Standards: ** 3.W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. 3.W.4 With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. 3.W.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">3.L.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">3.L.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">3.L.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">EfS Standards: **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">Date || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">Objective/KBAD   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">Activity   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">Environmental Tie-In  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">Resources **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Texts/Charts ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept 6 || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">KBAD **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students brainstorm and talk about special moments in their lives and gather entries for their quick write. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Introduce Writer’s Notebook <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Teacher models how to brainstorm significant moments in her life, and writes them on chart paper. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Students share with partner special moments, make a list. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Allow students to share with the class their special moments. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Students choose topics from list and gather entries. ||  || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Charts: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Significant Moments || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept 7 || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">KBAD **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students learn how writers go back to their entries and select a meaningful moment and write a draft. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Teacher models with her writer’s notebook how to go back and choose a meaningful moment and how to begin drafting (use chart paper or elmo). ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept. 10 || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">KBAD **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students understand that during revision writers make changes in content, organization, sentence structure, and word choice to improve their writing. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Brainstorm strategies good writers use to improve the quality of our writing. Make a chart with their suggestions. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Students use some of the revision strategies in their writing. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Share: Students share their strategies. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Provide a basic Editing Checklist ||  || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Charts: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Revision Definition Revision Strategies <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Editing Checklist || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept 11 || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">KBAD **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students understand that writers celebrate their hard work by sharing (publishing) their writing with others. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Discuss the last step in The Writing Process, (Publishing) and the importance of celebrating ones work. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Students write final draft and a quick reflection on their piece. Suggested questions <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Which writing strategies did you use and how did those strategies change your writing? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">What did you do well as a writer? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">What was difficult for you? ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept 12 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(**Launching)** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">KBAD **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students will be able to identify, and describe long term writing goals and come up with a plan to document progress towards these goals. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Explain what goals are and why it is important to know ourselves as writers, our strengths and weaknesses. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Allow students to work in partnership and share their strengths and weaknesses as writers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Use their reflections for the Quick Write to come up with goals, write them in Writer’s Notebooks <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Students share their goals ||  || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Charts: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Definition of Goals <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Teacher Writing Goals || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept 13 || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">KBAD **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Students will have an understanding of the rituals and routines of the writer’s workshop, ways of working independently, productively and resourcefully in a workshop environment. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Review Writing Workshop Structure (Mini-Lesson, Work Time, Share) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Routines and expectations during the Writing Workshop <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Maintenance and use of supplies || Students will be able to recognize and value the vital importance of the Commons in our lives and for our future. They will assume the rights, responsibilities, and actions to care for the Commons. || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Charts: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Routines During Writing Workshop <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Expectations || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept 14 || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">KBAD **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Students will have an understanding of the steps of the writing process and how rubrics are used to assess our writing. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Review the steps taken for the Quick Write <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Explain the Writing Process and create a chart <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Explain what a rubric is what is used for <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Distribute a sample rubric and go over the categories and levels <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Distribute copies of a student’s final piece <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Students work in partnership and use the rubric to score <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">final piece <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Students share their explanation for their score ||  || **Charts:** -Steps in Writing Process || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept 19 || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">KBAD **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Students will have an understanding that ideas for writing come from many sources (pictures, objects, stories, observations) and we use graphic organizers to remember these important moments in our lives. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Teacher uses her pictures and objects to model how to use timelines, lists and webs to write down ideas. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Students use their pictures and special objects they brought from home to generate ideas and write them on webs, timeline and or list. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Finally they share with the class. ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept 20 || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">KBAD **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Students will understand that writers write a variety of entries in their notebooks. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Teacher shares her personal entries such as observations, memories, wonderings, and reads some of her entries. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Then begin co-creating a chart of different types of entries. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Students should refer to the list as they gather a variety of entries in their notebooks. ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Launching Unit 1 pg. 12 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Possible Notebook Entries || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept 21 || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">KBAD **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Students will understand that stories we read and hear usually reminds us of something that has happened in our lives, “Me Too Stories” || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Teacher reads or uses a story previously read. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-During the read aloud, the teacher stops and students have an opportunity to share the stories the read aloud brings to their minds <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Students use their Writing Notebook to list story ideas from the read aloud. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Create a chart that lists the techniques to use when telling oral stories (engaging beginnings, playing with time, zooming in on important moments, repeated lines, dialogue etc.) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Students use techniques to share their stories ||  || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Books ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“Winn Dixie” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“Matilda” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“Peter’s Chair” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“The Leaving Morning” || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept 24 || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">KBAD **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Students will have an understanding that writers use tools such as a checklist to help us stretch out our ideas, and push ourselves to write more to build stamina as writers. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Introduce checklist, explain what it is and its use. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Provide a blank checklist and a student or teacher final piece. Students work in small groups to analyze craft elements and write them in checklist (teacher models first). What did the writer include to make his/her story more interesting? ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept 25 || **KBAD** Students will have an understanding that writers use our senses (see, hear, feel, smell and taste) to help the reader understand exactly what is happening and make the story more interesting. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Review senses and their purpose in writing <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Read “Owl Moon” Show how the writer uses the senses to describe the setting <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Have copies of the book and senses chart with each sense on a different column. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Students work in partnership and find places in story where the writer uses her senses and write them in the appropriate column. ||  || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Books ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“Owl Moon” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Five Columns, a sense per column || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept 27 || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">KBAD **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Students will understand that writers use transitional words to make logical connections between sentences and paragraphs. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Read the story “Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughter” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Explain what transitional words are, the four types of transitional words: additive, adversative, casual and sequential and their purpose in written work. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Return to text and find places where the author included transitional words <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Have a list of the different types of transitional words and paste in Writer’s Notebook ||  || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Books: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Transitional Words <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sept 28 || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">KBAD **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Students will understand that figurative language <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">is used in writing to help convey meaning, emotions, and expressions in a vivid and artistic manner. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Explain that “If the writer does not create an image in the readers mind, he will lose the reader’s attention and holding the attention of the reader is the writer's goal. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Play the song “The World’s Greatest” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Provide a copy of the lyrics of the song “The World’s Greatest” and identify the metaphors used. Then prepare a graphic organizer with the metaphors and students infer the meaning of each metaphor. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-(Optional) Read book **Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Discuss similes as another form of figurative language <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Use poetry ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Song R.Kelly “The World’s Greatest” (metaphors) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- **My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks: And Other Funny Family Portraits****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Hanokh Piven. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- **Tigress.** Nick. Dowson. (similes & metaphors) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">B. Responsible Local and Global Citizenship: **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> The rights, responsibilities, and actions associated with leadership and participation toward healthy and sustainable communities. Students will know and understand these rights and responsibilities and assume their roles of leadership and participation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">E. Healthy Commons: **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> Healthy Commons are that upon which we all depend and for which we are all responsible (i.e., air, trust, biodiversity, climate regulation, our collective future, water, libraries, public health, heritage sites, top soil, etc.). Students will be able to recognize and value the vital importance of the Commons in our lives and for our future. They will assume the rights, responsibilities, and actions to care for the Commons.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">F. Sense of Place: **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The strong connection to the place in which one lives. Students will recognize and value the interrelationships between the social, economic, ecological, and architectural history of that place and contribute to its continuous health.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Charts: **
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Simile Books **
 * -My Best Friend is as Sharp as a Pencil: And Other Funny Classroom Portraits****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Hanoch Piven.
 * -****Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Loreen Leedy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **Come On, Rain!** Karen Hesse.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **The Butterfly.** Patricia Polacco.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- ****I’m as Quick as a Cricket****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Audrey Wood

For Building Communities units: Texts with strong heroes/heroines for comparing themes and character comparison
 * Read Alouds:**