Fifth Grade StudentParent Writers Workshop

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Fifth Grade Student-Parent Writers Workshop

• Presented by Mr. Dovico and Ms. Norton

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What is writing?

• Comes in many forms
• Neatly hand-written, jotted, drawn, typed
• Demonstrated in many fashions
• Essays, notes, articles, tests, journal,
  scribbling, professional
• Each situation calls for its own form

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Fifth Grade Writing

• North Carolina Standard Course of Study contains
  many skills in which fifth graders should be
  proficient.
• formulate hypotheses.
• evaluate information and ideas.
• present and support arguments.
• influence the thinking of others.

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Pre-writing

• How do you pre-write?
• Different folks, different strokes
• Notes
• Graphic organizers (flow map, Venn diagram)
• Thinkers
• Have a direction!

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One Draft? Two Draft? Three Draft? More?

• Every scenario is different
• Timed assignments
• Free-writing
• Short-term assignments
• Long-term assignments

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Writing for the Prompt

• Know what youre writing about!
• Lets practice
• Write one sentence about your favorite food.
• Write one sentence about why everyone should also
  eat your favorite food.
• Write one sentence about what your favorite food
  would say if it could talk.

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Evaluation Time

• Lets look at actual student examples for
  responding to questions and prompts.
• Where did the student follow the prompt?
• Where did the student veer away from the prompt?

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Building from Scratch

• Your turn!
• Using the graphic organizer, write down your
  favorite hobby.
• Write down three reasons why this is your
  favorite hobby.
• With your first reason, write down three details
  to support this reason.

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Developing a Paragraph

• Hook your reader with a sentence that introduces
  your paragraph.
• Develop safe, complete sentences using your
  details. (Well spice it up later)

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Spice It Up!

• Fifth graders should begin to develop more
  detailed, vocabulary rich sentences.
• Look at the first sentence of your paragraph.
• Ask yourself three important questions
• WHY?
• HOW?
• WHO CARES?
• Use these questions to develop your sentences
• Find a word that seems bland.
• Find a synonym for it

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Practice, Practice, Practice

• Look at the student work provided
• Find areas where the product could be developed.
• Hint Keep asking the three questions
• WHY?
• HOW?
• WHO CARES?

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Fifth Grade Student-Parent Writers Workshop
Session 2

• Presented by Mr. Dovico and Ms. Norton

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First Week Review

• Fifth grade writing
• Continuation of narrative from 4th
• Expository (answering why)
• Contextual (using passages, resources)
• Different writing for different situations
• Goal for year develop writing using details and
  description
• Accomplish by asking
• WHY?
• HOW?
• WHO CARES?

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Writing for Science

• Writing for science is about EXPLAINING and
  SUPPORTING your findings
• Does not matter what your findings are
• Explaining WHY what happened has happened
• People should be able to replicate your
  experiment and compare their findings to yours

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Mini Experiment

• Ask question
• Background research
• Hypothesis (prediction)
• Conduct experiment
• Analyze data and draw conclusions
• Report findings

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Our Question

• Question Will a book and a pencil hit the ground
  at the same time if they are dropped
  simultaneously?
• Useful Information Objects fall at a constant
  rate due to gravity (9.8 m/sec²). Air resistance
  may effect rate of drop.
• What is your hypothesis?

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Writing for Social Studies

• History, politics, economics, sociology
• 5th grade primarily US history
• Students will use research to increase knowledge
  of historical events and figures
• Main ideas and details
• Bullet points and Roman numerals
• Use notes to create written pieces

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Lets Practice

• Read the short article on the next slide
• After read, write down what you believe to be the
  main idea, in your own words
• Add 2-3 details about that main idea by indenting
  bullet points
• Remember, when writing notes, there is no need to
  write in complete sentences

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Theodore Roosevelt

• Roosevelt was known for his endless energy.
  Buffalo Bill called him "a cyclone" and Mark
  Twain called him "an earthquake." As a young man
  he spent two years as a cowboy on his ranch in
  the Dakota Territory. When Spain and the U.S.
  went to war in 1898, he organized a Volunteer
  Cavalry (an army unit on horseback), which was
  called "the Rough Riders."
• (http//www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/
  aa/presidents/roosevelt/riders_1)

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Roosevelt Notes

• Example 1
• Roosevelt - very energetic
• Buffalo Bill called him a cyclone
• Mark Twain called him an earthquake
• Example 2
• Roosevelt - cowboy as young man
• Had ranch in Dakota Territory
• Organized Volunteer Cavalry for Spanish-American
  War 1898 (Rough Riders)

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Essays in Social Studies

• During the year fifth graders will create a
  research paper based on a social studies topic
• Students will practice creating notes, then later
  turning them into structured paragraphs
• Look at the example on the next slide
• Where is evidence used from research to support
  writing?

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Theodore Roosevelt by Mr. Dovico

• Theodore Roosevelt, our 26th President of the
  United States, was President from 1901 1909.
  He was well known for being energetic and
  presenting his cowboy-like personality in his
  time in the armed forces. In fact, Buffalo Bill
  called Roosevelt a cyclone and Mark Twain
  called him an earthquake, showing his lively
  nature (Americas Library). Roosevelt was also
  dedicated to bringing his knowledge he learned as
  a youth on a ranch in the Dakotas to his
  experience in the United States military. During
  the Spanish-American War in 1898, Roosevelt
  created a Volunteer Cavalry, which he called the
  Rough Riders (Americas Library).

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Documentation

• Students must give credit to their sources
• When is it needed?
• How do you know if you need to cite something?
• Rule of thumb If you have a) copied something
  directly, b) taken an opinion/idea from someone
  to support your writing that you did not create,
  c) facts that are not common knowledge
• Common knowledge or facts do not need to be cited

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Do the following need to be cited?

• Gas prices have risen over the past several
  months.
• From 2007 to 2008, gas prices have risen on
  average .48 a gallon in North Carolina.
• Due to the gas shortages around the country,
  people should begin to find more fuel efficient
  ways to travel. (paraphrased from John Smiths)
• When crude oil supplies are short, refiners have
  to bid higher for American fuel supplies,
  reflecting in the raised prices at the pumps.
• People have made a push for more fuel efficient
  cars, which has lead to an increase in smaller
  cars on the road. (Mr. Dovicos words)

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Do the following need to be cited?

• Gas prices have risen over the past several
  months. NO this is common knowledge
• From 2007 to 2008, gas prices have risen on
  average .48 a gallon in North Carolina. YES
  this is a direct quote with facts, evidenced by
  quotation marks
• Due to the gas shortages around the country,
  people should begin to find more fuel efficient
  ways to travel. (paraphrased from John Smiths)
  YES this is taken from someone elses words,
  even if I dont quote it exactly
• When crude oil supplies are short, refiners have
  to bid higher for American fuel supplies,
  reflecting in the raised prices at the pumps. YES
  even if this is put into my own words, this is
  not common knowledge
• People have made a push for more fuel efficient
  cars, which has lead to an increase in smaller
  cars on the road. (Mr. Dovicos words) NO this
  is my observation and thoughts (though I will
  want to support this with research)

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Citing Sources

• Various citing sources (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.)
• Fifth grade will use MLA
• In text citation (author page ) (Smith 3)
• Works Cited Page aka Bibliography
• Author Last, Author First. Title. Place of
  Publication Publisher, Year of Publication.
• http//citationmachine.net
• Writers Reference by Diana Hacker

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Theodore Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt, our 26th President of the
  United States, was in office from 1901 1909.
  He was well known for being energetic and
  presenting his cowboy-like personality in his
  time in the armed forces. In fact, Buffalo Bill
  called Roosevelt a cyclone and Mark Twain
  called him an earthquake, showing his lively
  nature (Americas Library). Roosevelt was also
  dedicated to bringing his knowledge he learned as
  a youth on a ranch in the Dakotas to his
  experience in the United States military. During
  the Spanish-American War in 1898, Roosevelt
  created a Volunteer Cavalry, which he called the
  Rough Riders (Americas Library).
• Common Knowledge (no citation needed)
• My own words, information was synthesized based
  on my research (citation can be used after my
  support sentence)
• My own words, but researched information (needs
  citation)

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Student Examples

• Look at the social studies research papers
  provided.
• Where is documentation correct?
• Where should student have used citation?