1. Topic-
Creative Writing
 
2. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
Goals and objectives are both tools for accomplishing what you want to achieve.
2. Goals are long term and objectives are usually accomplished in the short or medium term.
3. Goals are nebulous and you can't definitively say you have accomplished one whereas the success of an objective can easily be measured.
4. Goals are hard to quantify or put in a timeline, but objectives should be given a timeline to be more effective.
 
3. Objectives-
Students will create a heart map
 
4. Materials and Aids-
paper

pencil
 
5. Procedures/Methods-

A. Introduction-

1.Review that writing has meaning. Note that children are starting to realize that good writing comes from a very individual place, a writer's heart. Take time to be INTROSPECTIVE
 

B. Development-

1.Teaching point: Writers draw and sketch to find meaningful ideas to write about. Writers write from the heart and in many different genres. This heart map idea is straight from Georgia Heard's book ...
 

C. Practice-

1.draw an outline of a heart on a paper and photocopy

Writers write about and share what is important to them, what they care about. One strategy for thinking about what is important to you is to draw yourself a heart map. This is my own nearly finished heart map. When I look at my heart map. I get all sorts of ideas for writing projects that I would like to work on. When I look at just this one little piece of my heart map, this drawing here of my flower garden, I think I could write a poem about flowers. For an informational piece about snails, or a how-to about planting carpet roses, or a narrative that tells the story of how I broke a water pipe with my shovel when I was digging a big hole to plant a new tree. All o f my little drawings give me many ideas. The point is, everything here is very, very important to me. Every writer's heart map will look different because we are each unique individuals.
 

D. Independent Practice-

First, take some time and think quietly about what you will have on your heart map. Is there one very important thing you want to put in the middle? (Make some age-appropriate comment here to your class that alleviates any anxiety about the quality of the drawings.) Next, decide if you will take a plain piece of paper and draw a heart or another shape. Then, go to your seat and begin to list all the things that are important to you, but here's one important thing, YOU don't have to finish, because you will continue to find things you love as you continue to grow. So leave some room. Don't feel as if you have to fill it all in.
 

E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-

Children will sit at their tables.
Teachers will walk around assisting all students.
 

G. Closure-

Reinforce teaching point. Making a heart map is a strategy that can help writers find heartfelt topics to write about. Allow for talking and sharing; it's invaluable time spent that will strengthen your community and stir your writers up for success in their future writing projects.
 

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