Unit Three

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Unit Three

• Realistic Fiction

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Major Concepts and Skills

• Reading Response
• Written
• A5, B10
• Literature Circles
• A21, B14, B15

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Major Concepts and Skills

• Comprehension
• Monitoring
• Fix-up strategies
• A12
• Summarization
• A13

4
Major Concepts and Skills

• Vocabulary Development
• Structural analysis
• A11
• Multiple-meaning words
• Idioms
• B13
• Precise words

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Major Concepts and Skills

• Creative Writing/Story
• Writing Process
• Prewriting
• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing/proofreading
• Publishing

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Major Concepts and Skills

• Grammar
• Irregular verbs
• Comparing with adjectives
• Complex sentences
• Use of I and me
• Conventions

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Unifying Focus Shared Chapter
Book

• Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear

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Looking at the Lessons
Unit 3 Realistic Fiction
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Literary Devicestechniques used to achieve
particular effects

• Alliteration
• Dialogue
• Hyperbole
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

• Imagery
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition
• Rhyme
• Rhythm

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Poster Presentation

• Learning about cultural diversity
• Oral, group project with visuals
• Tailor to your class

Lesson 1
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Notebook Writing I dont know what to write
about.

• Ideas for Writing
• Getting ideas from reading
• List
• Just a few words
• Freewriting
• Builds fluency
• Any form, style, content, and purpose
• Consider a classroom chart of ideas

Lesson 2 (4,6,10)
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Looking at the Lessons

• Lessons 2-7
• What Good Readers Do
• Memorable Language
• Background Knowledge
• Vocabulary
• What Good Writers Do

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Creative WritingStory Realistic Fiction

• Prewriting
• Variety of forms
• Rereading notebook
• Lists
• Timeline
• Drawings or story board
• Freewriting

Lesson 7
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Creative WritingStory Realistic Fiction

• Prewriting
• Organize ideas so that a logical progression of
  thought is evident both within and across the
  paragraphs
• Remain focused on the topic (Obj. 1)

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Creative WritingStory Realistic Fiction

• Drafting (B12)
• Just one step in the process
• Leave space for later revising and editing
• Skip lines
• One side of the paper
• Leave wide margins
• Repeated recopying can turn kids off to writing.

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Voice (A19)

• Writers fingerprints on the page
• Sounds like the person who wrote it, has life,
  and makes the reader feel connected

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Voice Writing Obj. 1

• To express an individual voice means that the
  composition engages the reader by clearly
  reflecting the personality of the writer. The
  students writing sounds authentic and original
  and genuinely expresses the students own
  personal viewpoint. When a student responds in a
  highly individualistic way, his or her voice is
  naturally expressed. On the other hand,
  formulaic writing frequently prevents students
  from having the opportunity to express their own
  voice.

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Creative WritingStory Realistic Fiction

• Revising (A20)
• Exploding the Moment
• Show, Not Tell
• Strong Lead

Lessons 8 - 12
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Creative WritingStory Realistic Fiction

• Peer Conferencing (A23, R2)
• Students hear their work
• Students share their work

Writing Objectives 3,4 recognize and correct
errors in organization and development in the
context of peer-editing passages.
Lessons 9,11,12
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Creative WritingStory Realistic Fiction

• Proofreading/Peer Editing
• Writing Objective 2
• Demonstrates a command of the conventions of
  spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar,
  usage, and sentence structure
• Writing Objectives 5,6
• in the context of peer-editing passages.

Lessons 12,13
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Creative WritingStory - Realistic Fiction

• Publishing
• Written
• Partnering with the art teacher
• Partnering with the computer teacher
• Authors Chair (A24)

Lessons 13,14,15
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Assessment Opportunities

• Ongoing informal assessment
• Student self-evaluations (B16, B20)
• Poster presentation (B6)
• Reading response (B2, B3)
• Story writing (B11)
• Unit test (A25, B19)
• Other practice activities

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Bilingual and ESL

• Transadaptations

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Bilingual Model LessonsSpanish Language Arts

• Similarities
• Differences

Unit 3, Lesson 2 Example
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ESL Model LessonsEnglish Language Arts

• Similarities
• Differences

Unit 3, Lesson 4 Example