Student Writing Intensive - A

Lessons

• 1 Keyword Outlines, which clause, Sea Snakes, Tarantula, and Pillbug
• Sea Snakes
• Tarantula - optional
• Pillbug - optional
• 2 More with Keyword Outlines, which clause, Starfish, Oysters, and Pearls
• Starfish - optional
• Oysters - optional
• Pearls - optional
• 3 Review key word outline using the Paragraph, "The Boy and the Nuts."
• Introduce dress-ups ly adverb, who/which clause
• The Boy and the Nuts
• The Cocks and the Eagle
• 4 New dress-ups: strong verbs, banned words (see/saw, said, go/went), Writing checklist, choosing a title
• The Donkey and His Driver
• Peter the Great
• 5 Outline the "Mongols" paragraph and brainstorm for possible dress-ups: ly, adverb, who/which, strong verbs
• The Mongols
• Genghis Kahn - optional
• Camp Life - optional
• Family Life - optional
• 6 New Banned word - thought, dress-up: quality adjective, imposter - ly's, because clause
• Our First President
• Andrew Jackson - optional
• 7 Story Sequence Model (Unit 3), ,Change story details, brainstorm dress-ups
• The Boy Who Cried Wolf
• 8 Review Titles, Read Student Stories
• Princess and the Pea
• 9 Reinforcing the Story Sequence Model with The Lion and the Mouse
• 10 Review dress-ups, ban words eat, and good, changing adverbs to adjectives, introduce adverbial clause, composition checklist
• 11 Report writing: Topic/Clincher rule
• Whooping Cranes
• Captive Whoopers Fail
• Adoptive Parents
• 12 Reading Student Samples - reinforce Report Writing
• The Amazing World of Ants - optional
• Meadow Ants - optional
• Leaf Cutting Ants - optional
• 13 Review style techniques, Ban words like, bad and fun, Introduce Sentence Opener #2 Prepositional
• Use Library books for reinforcement materials
• 14 Creative Writing (Unit 7), Complete a brain inventory, Composition Checklist
• Optional outline and write a total of 3 paragraphs from information in the brain. The checklist has room for three paragraphs.
• 15 Optional reinforcement ideas: Typical school day is like
• what you wish a school day were like
• choose another topic from student brain inventory for writing
• Write a paragraph using the composition checklist