A lot of schools use the 6 Traits of Writing to teach Writing in the classroom. As a teacher I emphasized these traits when teaching writing. As a librarian, I collaborated with teachers to teach lessons around the 6 Writing Traits.
With so many schools, teachers, and librarians teaching the 6 Traits, and so many of those lessons often involve picture books (b/c let's be honest using a book to teach good writing is just logical) I thought I would give y'all a free lesson you can print out and use in the classroom, library, or homeschool environment.
This 6 Traits of Writing: IDEAS Lesson Plan is geared towards 1st/First Grade level, but it could be adapted for Kindergarten or Second/2nd grade. You could also easily include and make a SmartBoard notebook to go with it.
PS: I'm still trying to figure out how to share SMART notebook files with yall. If anyone know please holler.
I used a fabulously fun book, especially for 1st graders, for the lesson; Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann is a fabulous read aloud and works great for the IDEAS Writing Trait.
For an easy click and print version of this lesson plan click here for the document.
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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.
The
IDEAS are the heart of the message, the content of the piece, the
main theme, together with all the details that enrich and develop that theme.
The ideas are strong when the message is clear, not garbled.
1st grade- IDEAS Writing Trait
What Taught/Objective: 2. (Red) Write and speak for a variety of
purposes and audiences. Write for the
following purposes to address a variety of subjects and audiences: To
entertain, to inform or explain, and to reflect.
Materials Needed:
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Have several books of Fiction and Non Fiction to entertain and to inform
How Taught/Procedure:
1. Why do we write-
a. to
entertain and to provide information
b. List
the reasons on the board.
2. I
have several different books here. I
want you to help me determine which
books are written with the idea to entertain and which books are written with
the idea to provide information.
a. Go
through books one by one.
b. Have
students explain how they know that it was written with the idea to provide
information (and on what) or entertain.
i.
Cover, etc.
3.
Authors
usually write with the purpose to entertain or to provide information.
a.
However, it usually determines what you are writing
about and who is going to read it.
4. When
you write you probably do the exact same thing.
You probably write at times to entertain people to make them laugh and
have them enjoy what you wrote, or to provide information so they learn
something (like your kid pics projects.
You wrote those so people would learn more about the person you were
studying).
5. If
I was going to write a story for
Kindergartners to read so that they would know what first grade is going to be about I would be…
a. Writing
a story to provide information to
them or to make them laugh?
b. Have
on the board or SmartBoard- Entertain
and Information.
c. As
go through these point on the SmartBoard to the entertain or for info.
6. If
I wanted to write a story for my brother
to read for fun… I would be writing a story to entertain.
7.
If I was writing a letter to a friend to tell
them about all of the cool things there is to see in Colorado
8. Could we say that we write to provide
information and to entertain people? However, it depends on what we are
writing about and who is going to read what we write?
a. We
can write to entertain for our parents, brothers, sisters, friends, and
teachers to read.
b. We
can write to provide information for our parents, brothers, sisters, friends
and teachers to read.
9. Looking
at the cover of “Officer Buckle and
Gloria” can you tell if this book is
for entertainment or to provide information?
a. How
can you tell?
10. In this
book there is one of the characters that provide information to students at a
school. There is another character that
provides entertainment.
a. See
if you can figure out which one provides entertainment and which one provides
information.
11. READ “Officer Buckle and Gloria” by
Rathmann.
12. Which character provided the information-
Officer Buckle
13. Which character provided the entertainment-
Gloria
14. Review/Summarize
the story. What was the main idea of the story?
a. Working
together helped both of them succeed.
15. Both
Officer Buckle and Gloria were presenting to students at schools, but Officer
Buckle was presenting for the purpose of providing information. Gloria was there for the purpose of
entertaining.
a. Having
them both there helped the students
learn the safety rules and be entertained so they could remember the rules.
b.
Sometimes
authors write to both entertain the reader and to provide information.
c. Your
kid pics provided information, but with the pictures you drew it also was entertaining.
How Assessed: By
students being able to recognize which books entertain and which books provide
information as well it depends on what we are writing about and who is going to
read it.
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