Mentor Texts(s): **Students may pull any of the texts from the unit as a guide and/or to assist with developing craft in their own memoirs. Anchor Chart(S): Revision Teaching Point # 3 I can add purposeful dialogue. Learning Target: Independent Practice Students will reread their drafts to find Inform/ Review (1-2 min): places to add or modify dialogue. When Yesterday we revised our drafts so that our sentences conferencing, be sure to reiterate the were different and flowed nicely. Today we will add importance of limiting the amount of meaningful dialogue to make our memoirs more dialogue. interesting. Student Handout(s): Present/Model (5-7 min): Dialogue Rules—similar to anchor chart Good writers add dialogue to their writing, but they are very selective. They don’t just have full Standards: conversations in their stories. ELAGSE5W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective Pull examples from mentor texts. Suggestions: technique, descriptive details, and clear event Marshfield Dreams, Fireflies, or Trouper. sequences. Teacher will refer to his/her own draft and find one or b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, two places where the dialogue should be added or description, and pacing, to develop experiences and modified. events or show the responses of characters to situations. Guided Practice (3-5 min) Turn and talk: What is something that someone said or could say to make your memoir more meaningful? Mentor Texts(s): Marshfield Dreams Fireflies Trouper
Mentor Texts(s): **Students may pull any of the texts from the unit as a guide and/or to assist with developing craft in their own memoirs. Anchor Chart(S): Revision Teaching Point # 3 Learning Target: I can add purposeful dialogue. Inform/ Review (1-2 min): Yesterday we revised our drafts so that our sentences were different and flowed nicely. Today we will add meaningful dialogue to make our memoirs more interesting. Present/Model (5-7 min): Good writers add dialogue to their writing, but they are very selective. They don’t just have full conversations in their stories. Pull examples from mentor texts. Suggestions: Marshfield Dreams, Fireflies, or Trouper. Teacher will refer to his/her own draft and find one or two places where the dialogue should be added or modified. Guided Practice (3-5 min) Turn and talk: What is something that someone said or could say to make your memoir more meaningful? Mentor Texts(s): Marshfield Dreams Fireflies Trouper Independent Practice Students will reread their drafts to find places to add or modify dialogue. When conferencing, be sure to reiterate the importance of limiting the amount of dialogue. Student Handout(s): Dialogue Rules—similar to anchor chart Standards: ELAGSE5W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
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