ND Curriculum Initiative

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Colorful Sentence Writing

For grade(s) 5.

Subject & Standards

3. Students engage in the writing process.:

Understandings & Goals

Enduring Understanding: I want the students to understand the importance of being able to express themselves effectively in writing.
Goal(s):To improve written communications skills.

Questions Answered

Essential questions: 1. What are the components of writing sentences?  2. What stategies develop sentence writing, sentence expansion, and editing skills?
Objectives: 1. Students will recognize and apply the parts of speech.  2. Students will write following the Project Success writing patterns. 3. Students will expand their vocaculary and writing. 4. Students will edit their written work.  5. Students will share their written work.

Assessment

What quiz and test items (e.g. simple content-focused questions that require a single, best answer) will provide evidence of understanding?
Quizzes
What academic prompts (e.g. open-ended questions or problems that require students to think critically and then to prepare a response / product / performance) will provide evidence of understanding?
Daily probes
What performance tasks and projects (e.g. complex challenges that are authentic, mirror the real world and require a performance or product) will you include that will provide evidence of student understanding?
A journal of written work
What other evidence (e.g. observations, work samples, dialogues, student self-assessment) of understanding will you collect?
Observations, rubrics, journals, word charts, and writing samples

Instructional Strategies

Inquiry and project based stategies will be utilized in exploring the parts of speech, creating word banks, writing sentences, expanding and editing the sentences, and illustrating the work.

Lesson Created By

This lesson was created by Justin Wageman. Learn more about Justin Wageman on their profile page.