Today’s Teaching Points
What were your teaching points in today’s minilessons? Here were mine:
4th grade feature article (informational writing) unit:
Writers use specific words about the subject when writing informational texts.
4th grade fiction unit:
Writers can use the setting to help show the mood of the characters.
Leave a comment to share your teaching point from today’s minilesson.
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I am WAY late joining in, but our recent focus has been:
Illustrators use details to help readers understand.
Under that umbrella, we’ve tried out several techniques, most for 2 days at at time. A biggie for the kids was setting details and being deliberate about zeroing in on the action (narrative) or the facts (informational).
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Ruth,
I LOVE using setting as way to show mood of characters!!! I’m adding that in for sure!
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2nd grade: Reflected with a 2nd grade teacher on her students’ narrative prompts. Focus lesson: what’s the most important part of the day and stretching that scene.
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I watched a primary teacher use a picture book titled It’s Spring, by Linda Glaser to work on action words-verbs to enhance showing action in fiction stories.
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Mine was more of a reminder today for them to be thinking about our previous discussions about trying to catch and maintain the readers’ interest as they drafted. We talked about three strategies for leads from a Nancie Atwell resource: dialogue, action, or reaction.
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Ruth,
I would love some references or a guide to informational article writing. Can you direct me to something that would help get us started with article writing?
Thank You
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3rd/4th grade
A reminder that writers try new things in their writing, often things they have noticed other authors doing.
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Plot diagram: Writers build up to the climax of the story then make the reader feel the story is over.
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7th grade LA…
Asking “big questions” about a piece of text can lead to new thinking. (Using The Butterfly by Patricia Pollaco)
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