Activity Description
Title: Writing - - Opinion/Informational/Narrative
This ACTIVITY has a set of teaching-learning strategies proven to increase student mastery of Writing skills - - Opinion, Informational, and Narrative. Students give an opinion and support it; present a topic with explanatory or descriptive detail; and tell a story using the Literary elements. Most high-stakes tests include Opinion-writing and Information-writing but very few Narratives. For all three types of writing, students “pre-write” to plan their responses - - usually just a simple list of bullet points to capture the content. For writing mechanics, the standard sets forth some, and the teacher identifies additional language standards, gradually building to the complete grade-level list by the year’s end. Students use a simple writing rubric (consisting of the content and language mechanics requirements) to plan their work and to review the quality of the finished piece. [At Grades K-5, each Activity attaches student-sized texts, templates, and test items that teachers can quickly print and use immediately in class.]
Enabling Skills: (1) writing complete sentences; (2) using a pre-write that corresponds to a prompt; and (3) using the scoring rubric to plan details as well as evaluate successive writing drafts.
Direct Instruction: For all three writing types, the teacher reviews the Standard , a Pre-Write format, and how to formulate the First Draft. Sample prompts are provided for students to practice all three steps of the Writing Process. Once students create a draft, they exchange their work with writing partners and use the scoring rubric to give each other feedback. Students are provided sample Fiction and Non-Fiction texts, including pairs of texts to compare in their Quick-Writes.
Quick-Writes: Standards-based writing prompts are provided for all three writing prompts that require students to show their mastery of the Writing standard(s).
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