Week(s) # 3 (5 days) Form of Writing: Expository - Informative Prompt: Grammar Focus: Describe your favorite game and explain why it is fun. Kinds of sentences Primary Writing TEKS: Primary Grammar TEKS: 3.17(A) plan a first draft by selecting a genre appropriate for conveying the No match intended meaning to an audience and generating ideas through a range of strategies (e.g., brainstorming, graphic organizers, logs, journals); (B) develop drafts by categorizing ideas and organizing them into paragraphs; 3.20 Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes. Students are expected to: (A) create brief compositions that: (i) establish a central idea in a topic sentence; (ii) include supporting sentences with simple facts, details, and explanations; and (iii) contain a concluding statement; Writing Activity/Strategy Description: Revising/Editing Focus based on State Rubric: The organizing structure of the essay is clearly appropriate to the Model this type of writing using activity p. 19 Randi Whitney purpose and responsive to the specific demands of the prompt. The Expository Packet (Favorite Color) essay is skillfully crafted because the writer uses organizational Linear Paragraph p. 23 Randi Whitney Expository Packet strategies that are particularly well suited to the expository task. Suggested Pacing for Composition Writing: Writing Resource Correlation: Introduce: Journeys/Senderos: Prewriting: (Day 1) Model lesson Daily Grammar Lesson 2 T.E. pp. T108, T128, T136, T150 and S.E. Drafting: (Day 2, 3, 4, 5) Drafting and Conferencing-teacher needs to model the drafting process for this prompt daily. Write Source: Revising: p. 448 Editing: Other Resources: Publishing: Journey’s Projectables 2.2 & 2.6 Write Source Skills Book pp. 3-4 & 7-8 Features of Genre: Academic Vocabulary: Describe through informing, explaining, and defining. Sentence, expository, informative, command, exclamation, statement, question
Week(s) # 3 (5 days) Form of Writing: Expository - Informative Prompt: Describe your favorite game and explain why it is fun. Grammar Focus: Kinds of sentences Primary Writing TEKS: 3.17(A) plan a first draft by selecting a genre appropriate for conveying the intended meaning to an audience and generating ideas through a range of strategies (e.g., brainstorming, graphic organizers, logs, journals); (B) develop drafts by categorizing ideas and organizing them into paragraphs; 3.20 Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes. Students are expected to: (A) create brief compositions that: (i) establish a central idea in a topic sentence; (ii) include supporting sentences with simple facts, details, and explanations; and (iii) contain a concluding statement; Primary Grammar TEKS: No match Writing Activity/Strategy Description: Model this type of writing using activity p. 19 Randi Whitney Expository Packet (Favorite Color) Linear Paragraph p. 23 Randi Whitney Expository Packet Revising/Editing Focus based on State Rubric: The organizing structure of the essay is clearly appropriate to the purpose and responsive to the specific demands of the prompt. The essay is skillfully crafted because the writer uses organizational strategies that are particularly well suited to the expository task. Suggested Pacing for Composition Writing: Introduce: Prewriting: (Day 1) Model lesson Drafting: (Day 2, 3, 4, 5) Drafting and Conferencing-teacher needs to model the drafting process for this prompt daily. Revising: Editing: Publishing: Writing Resource Correlation: Journeys/Senderos: Daily Grammar Lesson 2 T.E. pp. T108, T128, T136, T150 and S.E. Write Source: p. 448 Other Resources: Journey’s Projectables 2.2 & 2.6 Write Source Skills Book pp. 3-4 & 7-8 Features of Genre: Describe through informing, explaining, and defining. Academic Vocabulary: Sentence, expository, informative, command, exclamation, statement, question
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