Last week I shared a lesson plan for the 6 Writing Traits. It was for the trait, IDEAS and it was geared to Kindergarten and 1st Grade students. It obviously can be adapted to other grades, and I know some of you have already done that.
I wanted to share another Six Writing Traits: IDEAS Lesson Plan, but this free lesson and printable is geared towards 2nd- 4th grade.
You can obviously adapt the lesson to your grade, class, and student whether you are in a school or home schooled environment however you see fit.
This lesson, as in any lesson I share with you, can be taught by the librarian in the library, teacher in the classroom, or a parent at home.
I used several books for this lesson, but I only read one of them, Miss Nelson is Back by Harry Allard. The books can easily be checked out from a library or purchased from Amazon.
For any easy click and print version of the lesson plan click here for the document.
I also reference a SmartBoard Notebook file. It doesn't need to be used, but I love the visual and I always use a SmartBoard if I have access to it. If you would like the file just email me {meganruth(at)gmaildotcom} and I will send it to you.
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Written by/Copyright: Alohamora Open a Book http://www.alohamoraopenabook.blogspot.com/
Lesson Plan written for library instruction or classroom instruction.
Six Traits of
Writing: Ideas Lesson Plan for 2nd – 4th grade
What Taught/Objective: Where we can get ideas for our writing.
Materials Needed: - Smartboard file- Ideas (Email me for it: meganruthatgmaildotcom)
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Books
Access to Site- http://www.patriciapolacco.com/author/bio/bio.html
How Taught:
1- Show
the 3 Polacco books. What do all 3 of these books have in
common?
a. By
the same author. Patricia Polacco
2- Every
author gets their ideas a different way.
I was curious to how Polacco gets her ideas for her books. She has written so many books.
a. Where do you think she got ideas for her
books? They are so different.
b. I just thought why not ask her or more like I
am sure someone else has asked her and I can find her answer.
Where do you think I could look to find the answer to where she gets
ideas for her writing?
c. On
her website she says that
i. Go to website.
Mention you can find information on a lot of authors on the internet.
ii. It talks about her, how she grew up, and her
family. I’ll keep looking b/c this
information is interesting; it doesn’t answer my question of where she gets her
ideas.
iii. More than halfway down (prob ¾ down) she says she gets ideas the same place I do…
her imagination.
iv. So authors get some really fantastic ideas from their
imagination.
v. You can use
your imagination and take a unique, original, approach to the topic/idea.
3- Well
what about these other books from different authors. Do you think they all get their ideas from
their imagination or do you think they might get their ideas from somewhere
else? Let’s look closer at them.
4- A
Drop of Water: A book of science and wonder by Walter Wick.
a. Well I see water every day. Whether it’s raining or snowing outside to
drinking water. Do you see water every day?
b. Where do you think Walter Wick got his idea for
this water book?
c. So we can
get ideas for our writing from the things we see around us?
d. But he took
a unique/original approach. A way no one
else has.
5- What
about this other book? Jack and
the Giant: A story full of beans by Jim Harris.
a. We are just guessing but where do you think he
could’ve gotten his idea for this jack and the giant book.
b. Now I have heard of Jack and the Beanstalk and it
involves a big giant and beans. Do you think this book could be similar to
Jack and the Beanstalk? Could we get our
ideas from other stories?
i. Yes, but we would have to change them. They can’t be the exact same story. We should change them a lot.
ii. Notice that this Jack and the giant/beanstalk story
has a cowboy hat on and he is riding a buffalo and with a musical instrument-
ukulele. Well in the real story it is a
harp and a chicken that lays golden eggs.
iii. When you read the book you can tell that there are
some similarities but they are very different as well.
iv. But he took
a unique/original approach. A way no one
else has.
6- What
about this book- Miss Nelson is Back by Harry Allard
a. Where do you
think this author could’ve possibly gotten his idea?
b. Well everyone goes to school. They look like they are at school. Maybe this could’ve happened to him.
7- Let’s
Read Miss Nelson is Back and maybe we
can get a better idea.
8- That was a fun story. We could possibly say that the author’s idea
came from his imagination. Authors also
write from things that happen to them.
We could say that this possibly happened to him. Though we don’t know for sure, we could find
it online.
9- So if I want to write something… where
could I get some ideas for my writing?
B/c I can’t write something amazing if I don’t have any ideas.
a. Imagination like
Polacco
b. Things
around us like our Water book.
c. Other
stories but changed a lot like our Jack and the Giant
d. Things that
happen to us or maybe people we know
e. We always
want to take a unique/original approach.
A way no one else has.
How Assessed: By the review at the end of where to get
ideas for our writing. At this point if
you are in the classroom you can begin to have the students brainstorm using a
web or just list out individually some ideas they have and/or where they can
get ideas for writing.
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Happy fun picture book reading and teaching students and kids on the IDEAS writing trait!
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