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Content Area: Language Arts Literacy
Index: 3.2 B Grade 4 CPI 1
Standard: 3.2 Reading
Strand: B - Writing as a Product (resulting in a formal product or publication)
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will create narrative pieces, such as memoir or personal narrative, which contain description and relate ideas, observations, or recollections of an event or experience. .
Grade: 4
Sample Activities: · Each student is given a stuffed animal and a “writing suitcase.” Students take the animal home and use writing materials in the suitcase to write their overnight adventures .
· After a class discussion of qualities to look for in a friend, students write a descriptive essay about a best friend, human or animal. They include some of the following topics: how they met their best friend, characteristics of a friend, and what they and their best friend do and do not expect from each other. Points should be illustrated by specific examples, reactions, and feelings.
· A teacher tells the children that she is sad because her best friend is moving to another state. She tells the class that she wants to write her friend a letter about this and hopes the class will help. The teacher uses a transparency to compose the letter with the class. As they work, the teacher discusses such letter-writing conventions as the salutation, closing, and proper form. Then, each child is encouraged to write a letter to a friend.
· After listening to a teacher read-aloud, students are
asked to write for ten minutes in response to the prompt: “If I were
(character name), I would have….” Afterwards, students comment on how the
process of writing led them to consider thoughts and feelings that were new
to them. Vignettes (in PDF format):
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