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How to Write Those Narrative and Expository Writings Without the F U S S !!

How to Write Those Narrative and Expository Writings Without the F U S S !!. Background. “Attention getters” Students’ background knowledge Real-life situations and/or items to relate too. Narrative . Story hooks Graphic organizers

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How to Write Those Narrative and Expository Writings Without the F U S S !!

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  1. How to Write Those Narrative and Expository Writings Without the FUSS!!

  2. Background • “Attention getters” • Students’ background knowledge • Real-life situations and/or items to relate too

  3. Narrative • Story hooks • Graphic organizers • Marzano’s findings –up to 45% gain in achievement with students

  4. Expository • Main Idea/Topic sentence • Supporting details • Use photographs • Songs for common mistakes • The Whole Summary Song • Story Map Song • Rapping Grammar • YouTube videos

  5. Frame Organizer • Frame of a newly built house • Use photographs of those new homes being built within the community • Use the frame structure • Roof- main idea/topic sentence • Supporting Beams/Supporting details

  6. Writing Conference • Always conference • Please only focus on one thing they are consistently doing wrong • Teacher fixes everything else • Next conference • Something else they are doing wrong • Teacher fixes everything else • Student tracks their own growth- chart

  7. Good Teaching Strategies • Use music- can be played on TEST day!! • Use stickers or reinforcements to promote growth in writing. • Use white boards to teach concepts for informal assessments. • Use rubrics that are shared with the students as the new writing assignment is introduced • Rubistar (create your own rubrics)

  8. Writing Music • Website- www.writeguy.net • Great songs for the classroom to promote punctuation and grammar • “Stop in the Name of Love”- periods • Background Music • Meet Joe Black Soundtrack • Any suggestions?

  9. Websites • Reading A-Z • Vocabulary, Grammar lessons, center work, intervention lessons • Brain Pop • Writing lessons- • Show Not Tell • Main Idea • Poetry

  10. Expository Activity • Read a short selection from a book about a certain topic • Allow the students to fill out the “frame” graphic organizer • Allow the students to come up and place their supporting details on the frame house. • They can use this for any expository piece of writing. • Topic with 4 details to support it

  11. House Structures • Wooden structure • 3- 1 X 2- 8ft. @ $1.15= $3.45 • 1-scrap piece of 1 X 8 X 8 channel cedar siding= $4.00 • Total cost- $7.45 = tax • Cardboard house • Hobby Lobby- $5.99 + tax

  12. Professional Books • Under-Resourced Learners • Ruby Payne • Crunchtime • Gretchen Bernabei • Reviving the Essay • Gretchen Bernabei • Why We Run With Scissors • Gretchen Bernabei • Sparklers • Gretchen Bernabei • Mindset • Carol Dweck • Teach with Your Strengths • Rosanne Liesveld • How Full Is Your Bucket? • Tom Rath

  13. Contact Information • Leticia Saunders • Jefferson Elementary School- 4thGrade ELA/SS • leticia.saunders@tisd.org • Please contact me if you ever need anything!

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  15. Happy Writing! You are AWESOME teachers!! TISD is the place to be!

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