1. Topic-
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| Word Choice/Descriptive Powers |
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2. Content-
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| Helping Students to understand what word choice means. Improving
descriptive writing. |
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3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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1.To help students clarify ideas.
2. To help students expand on ideas.
3. To help students develop their writing skills. |
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4. Objectives-
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1. Standard 2: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for
literary response and expression.
2. Standard 4: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social
interaction.
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5. Materials and Aids-
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| Fish, Crabs, Worms, White board, Dry erase markers, paper, pencil
and clear bowls |
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6. Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
~ Previous week's activity, which related to word choice.
~ Remind students they can not use any words that have been buried.
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B. Development-
~ Word choice and a description go hand and hand
~ Often you describe something using the same old boring words.
~( Remind Students HERE)
~ To help you sharpen your descriptive powers, we are going to play
a game. In this game you really have to focus because you only have
one minute to look at the object.
~ You must be observant!
~ You can not write till the one minute it over. |
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C. Practice-
Let's practice this. You have one minute to observe this object.
Remember do not write!
~ Students observe object, after a minute they write down everything
they observed.
~ Activity, repeated four more times with live animals.
~ Students write down their observations.
~ After each animal we generate a list on the board of all the details.
~ Are we using good words??
~ Are we observing details?? |
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D. Independent Practice-
| After the four animals have been observed and lists have been generated;
students will pick on of the animals. They will write a paragraph
describing that animal. They will use good word choice and work on
description. |
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E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-
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F. Checking for understanding-
| The paragraphs will allow me to see how well students are describing
an object. It will also allow me to get an idea of a students word
choice. |
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G. Closure-
| If students are not done with their paragraph they are to finish
for homework. If this is the case they will need to copy down the
list, if not already done. |
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