Writing can be composed and produced through different modes and technology. As a future teacher, it is important for me to use different modes to teach my students. Writing should also be taught in a traditional way of essays. Students need to be fluid in different writing modes. “Effective writing is a vital component of students’ literacy achievement, and writing is a critical communication tool for students to convey thoughts and opinions, describe ideas and events, and analyze information” (Dept of Education). Teaching students to writing in different modes help them improve their writing, be able to convey thoughts in opinions through different modes and creates life-long skills that they need for the future. The nature of writing is always changing, so should our teaching instructions. Different modes of writing include: short stories, videos, newsletters, brochures, websites, blogs, etc. According to the National Councils of Teachers of English “increased access to various modalities and technologies has created opportunities for students with a wide range of abilities, backgrounds, and languages to compose with more independence and agency”. Lesson plans of how teachers can use different modes to teach are down below.
Category Archives: NCTE: Standard 1
Overview and Lessonplan
Lesson Plan:Blog
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Teacher: Sherae Mcrae Grade: TBD School: Longwood University
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Essential Learning Target(s):
· Students will: · Understand how to write blogs · Express their opinion in a blog entry · Assess other students’ blog entries
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| Subject: Writing
Topic: Blog |
Essential Question(s):
•What is a blog? •What information should be included? • What it is it used for?
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| Virginia State Standard(s):
Writing: 5.7 The student will write for a variety of purposes: to describe, to inform, to entertain, to explain, and to persuade
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| Lesson Procedures:
· Ask students if they have heard of a blog. · Explain what a blog is. · Discuss rules for blogging. Add any more rules to the Blogging Rules list that your class determines. · Show examples of educational blogs, such as those on Scholastic News Online. · Choose a blog to join in the discussion. · Allow time for the students to type their blog entries. · If time allows, have the students respond to another student’s blog entry. |
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| Materials:
· Blogging Rules · Scholastic News Online Blogs
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Assessments:
How well did the students understand the blog-writing process? How interested were the students in the discussion topics? What technical problems arose?. |
Notes:
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Lesson Plan: Newsletter
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Teacher: Sherae Mcrae Grade: TBD School: Longwood University
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Essential Learning Target(s):
· Students will have developed questioning and predicting skills as well as the following: · Developing receptiveness to language, reading, listening and understanding · Writing, spelling, grammar, drafting, revising and editing · Developing imagination, confidence in using oral language and creative skills · Use of dictionaries and thesauruses to extend and develop vocabulary and spelling · |
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| Subject: Writing
Topic: Newsletter
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Essential Question(s):
•What are the important features of newsletter? •What information should be included? •What are the steps to create a newsletter?
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| Virginia State Standard(s):
Writing: 5.7 The student will write for a variety of purposes: to describe, to inform, to entertain, to explain, and to persuade 5.8 The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and paragraphing Research: 5.9 The student will find, evaluate, and select appropriate resources for a research product.
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| Lesson Procedures:
•Ask the students to look at newspapers and other newsletters for ideas of layout. •Highlight how the newspaper is structured: e.g. “lead” story, use of full banner headlines, language of headlines, placement of photographs and captions, audience of the newspaper, are the stories interesting, are the stories opinion pieces or factual etc. •Ask the students to create a list of topics around what they wish to write about in their newsletter. •Give the students Reporting Tips (if they are using an interview in their newsletter) •Encourage the students to gather information for their articles and to follow the reporting checklist • Organize the students into groups to create a series of newsletters •Once Newsletter a completed they will be complied into a class magazine. This magazine can then be share with other classes and grades.
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| Materials:
· Paper · Color pencils · Pencils · Comic Template · Samples of Newsletters · Reporting Tips Sheet
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Assessments:
Use completed newsletter to measure writing skills. |
Notes:
Lesson Plan found and modified from:
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