voicing a story about a sporting event or a recess activity
This lesson was built for WritingFix after being proposed by NNWP Teacher Consultant Patty Foncault at an SBC-sponsored inservice class.
The intended "mentor text" to be used when teaching this on-line lesson is the picture book No, David! by David Shannon. Before writing, students should listen to and discuss the writing style of this book's author.
Washoe County teachers, click here to search for this book at the county library.
Three-Sentence Overview of this Lesson:
Thinking about a sporting event, each writer will combine one interesting interjection (or verb) and one interesting name, and then create as many emotion-filled sentences as possible (No, David!...David, No. No!...No, no, no, no, David!). Punctuation will be checked carefully for commas, periods, and exclamation points. Writers will then create a descriptive scene about a sporting event that weaves together details and several of their interjection-based sentences. Teachers: Click here to see the entire lesson plan.
6-Trait Overview for this Lesson:
The focus trait in this writing assignment is voice; the writer's goal is to capture emotions with the combined use of emotional words and names in the spurts of dialogue they will create. The support trait in this assignment is conventions; properly punctuated sentences (using commas, periods, and exclamation points) is the other goal of this writing exercise.
Recipient of the NNWP's Excellent Writing Lesson Award:
Because of the quality of its resources and ideas, this WritingFix lesson was selected by the Northern Nevada Writing Project as January 2007's Writing Lesson of the Month. It was e-mailed to thousands of teachers who are members of the NNWP's Writing Lesson of the Month Teacher Network.
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Because of the quality of its resources and ideas, this WritingFix lesson was selected by the Northern Nevada Writing Project as January 2007's Writing Lesson of the Month. It was e-mailed to thousands of teachers who are members of the NNWP's 
