What Makes a Good Sentence? Writing Modes Remote Learning
Overview
Students will learn and be able to practice how to write a good sentence using punctution!
Learning Objectives
NE ELA Standards:
LA 5.2: Students will learn and apply writing skills and strategies to communicate.
LA 5.2.1: Students will apply the writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writing using correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and other conventions of standard English appropriate for grade-level.
LA 5.2.1d: Compose paragraphs with grammatically correct simple, compound, and complex sentences of varying length, complexity, and type.
Learning Objectives
- Students will understand voice in creating a sentence.
Students will expand sentences to add details.
Students will create sentences that use descriptive words and punctuation.
Materials:
Writer's Notebook
Google Slides Presentations- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DQUMlLBzFBYq38G0cURQGbC51ApZOF369X1QFp5_NEs/edit?usp=sharing
I do, we do, you do
I do:
Show the slideshow (slide 2) using sentences using !?.
Go through and make each sentence (declarative/purple, interogative/green, and exclamatory/red)
Go through each sentence and show if it adds voice…
“If it's an exclamatory sentence, reader’s can see that I am happy or yelling and sense what is really going on!”
You want readers to read exactly how you are writing.
We do:
Show students slide show of another paragraph (slide 2) with sentences being all declarative and read the paragraph in a monotone voice.
Pause and think about what that sentence sounded like.
Tell STs “that paragraph I just read to you might have sounded a little boring or bland and that is because it has no descriptive punctuation, so let's go through it and fix some of the sentences up!
Fix Sentences for students- demonstrate your thinking to students
Repeat for another paragraph
You do:
I want you guys to pause the video and write in your writer’s notebook for 15 minutes about your favorite thing to do in the summer using different kinds of punctuation to show your readers how you are feeling! Remember, readers want to read exactly how you were writing!
Good luck!
Closure:
Tell STs to take time to read their story to someone or something saying it how they would want readers to read it!