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Activity Plan Designed by:

OVERVIEW/FRAMING
Grade Level: 3rd

Language and Literacy Writing and Spelling

Component

BIG IDEAS/Questions Writing in complete sentences with correct spelling.

Content Focus: Sentence Structure

TEKS Focus: 3.19 Writing

Students write about their own experiences

GROWTH AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Cognitive/thinking Children will recall their funniest memory

Physical Children will Create a short story about their funniest memory

Social/emotional Children will assemble into groups with their peers to brainstorm

Language/literacy Children will create a short story with complete sentences and proper spelling.

List 3 target vocabulary: funny, remember, memory

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MATERIALS & LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PREPARATION

MATERIALS  Pen/Pencil
 Paper
 Dictionary

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Brainstorming stage is meant to be spent with students in groups and talking about memories.
During writing students are working individually but some talking is allowed

PRIOR EVENTS/RESOURCES
Introduced the writing process and went over each individual step as a class.

THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Spark/Launch/Introduction
Writing Process

The activity The children will be….

1. Brainstorming their funniest memories with peers
2. Write rough draft
3. Get rough draft peer reviewed
4. Write final draft
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The teacher will do/ask….

1. walk around class making sure groups don’t get out of hand
2. assist students with sentence structure and grammar when needed
3. observing that all students are participating

Reflection 1. Did they find mistakes they made in their rough draft that they corrected in the final draft

2. Did they follow the writing process

3. Did brainstorming with peers help lead them to a funny memory?

AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT
Performance-based
Analysis Plan They had a clear understanding of the writing process. They wrote in clear sentences with correct
spelling