WRITING - Q1 Week 3 Day 2
Today we introduced "What's Going On In This Picture?"
Students looked at an image from the New York Times website and 1) noticed details from the photos, 2) made inferences about what is happening in the photo and 3) wrote those notes down in their WN with today's date. We will reveal the photo caption on Friday and see how students did.
Then students were introduced to Writing Workshop and how we will use mentor texts to learn from this year. The goals for today were:
Students looked at an image from the New York Times website and 1) noticed details from the photos, 2) made inferences about what is happening in the photo and 3) wrote those notes down in their WN with today's date. We will reveal the photo caption on Friday and see how students did.
Then students were introduced to Writing Workshop and how we will use mentor texts to learn from this year. The goals for today were:
- To practice using a mentor text to learn writing strategies.
- To record at least 2 strategies to use in writing a Personal Narrative.
- To practice those strategies in a flashdraft of your own Personal Narrative.
We read a student draft essay together and noted what worked about it. Then students read a chapter from Pictures of Hollis Woods as a reader. After that, they worked with their writing partner to identify things that worked well in that paper.
We made an anchor chart of what students learned from these texts.