Jeanna Wilson Narrative Writing Unit READ 7140A

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Jeanna WilsonNarrative Writing UnitREAD 7140A
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Grade Level 1st Genre Personal
Narrative Form Story Content Area
Science Topic Basic Needs of Animals
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Georgia Writing Test Grade 3 Four types of
writing Narrative, Informational, Persuasive,
and Response to Literature Graded as Does Not
Meet, Meets, and Exceeds Teacher Graded by
Writing Assessment Scoring Rubric
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• Unit Prepares for Writing Assessment by
• Practicing different genres
• Giving opportunities to go through the writing
  process
• Students are taught each stage in detail

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Pre-assessment Prompt Directions We will be
writing a short paper telling a story of your
favorite vacation or holiday. You will have 25
minutes to complete this activity. Materials
pencils, paper
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• Prewriting
• Instructional Grouping Options
• Instruction whole group setting
• -directions, clarifications and questions
• -scaffolding
• 2) Practice whole group
• -students feedback of retelling directions
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• 3) Assessment individual assignment --
  -progress in strengths and weaknesses

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Grouping Options based on Developmental
Needs Explanation of Grouping Options Relating
to Students Developmental Needs -hear questions
and answers from their fellow students -allows
student to interact with one another -zone of
proximal development    
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• Explanation of Grouping Options Relating to
  Students Cultural Needs(Whole grouping)
• allows students to discuss and interact about the
  assignment
• less stressful environment.

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Genre of Writing -a personal narrative about
animals -a story containing a beginning, middle,
and end Prewriting -first stage of writing
process -organize our thoughts on graphic
organizer -short statements without sentences
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Accommodations and/or modifications for needs of
students with differing developmental needs Low
level learners may benefit from - a list may be
provided of different kinds of settings -a list
may be provided of different types of animals
that may be familiar to
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Accommodations and/or modifications for needs of
students with differing cultural
backgrounds -allow extra time -a partner to work
with during brainstorming -define the vocabulary
words (prewriting, topic, main idea, character,
problem, solution) on the board (Micheau, 2005)
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Drafting Explanation of Drafting -second step
of the writing process -taking the information
from the prewriting (story map) stage and
changing it into sentences --create a draft of
your story -skip lines -write without paying too
much attention to punctuation, grammar, or
neatness
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Revising Explanation of Revising -third step of
the writing process -add, change, delete, and
rearrange -revising marks -use a marker or pen
to make corrections
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Editing Explanation of Editing -fix our
grammatical errors (capitalization, ending
punctuation, commas, apostrophes, and
spelling) -proofreading marks
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Publishing Explanation of Publishing -final
stage of writing process -neatest
handwriting -make final changes
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