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Interdisciplinary Writing Unit Civil Rights Movement: Brown v Board of Education Najakka Hargrove
Grade: 5th
Genre: Narrative
Form: Response to Literature/Simulated Journal
Content Area: Social Studies
Topic: Brown v Board of Education
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2. Georgia Writing Assessment Grade:5
Evaluation of students’ response to narrative, persuasive, or informational writing
Taken in the month of March by all 5th graders
Need to be familiar with the writing process
Need to be familiar with genres and forms of writing
Cover Georgia Performance Standards for content purposes
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3. Georgia Writing Assessment
Scoring
Analytic
More than one feature or domain is evaluate
Holistic
Each domain is evaluated holistically (making overall judgment)
Domains
Content - 40%
Organization - 20%
Style - 20%
Convention - 20%
Raters
2 raters
Trained for standardized scoring system
4yr college degree
No knowledge of the author
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Writing Prompts
The teacher will have students to write on familiar topics to see what students are capable of writing.
Student will be give 40 minutes to complete writing.
Students will select a topic from the following:
Think of a day in your life when everything seemed to be going wrong. Tell about it.
Tell about a time when you felt proud.
What is one of the funniest things that have ever happened to you? Retell the event as completely as you can.
When you get to school, there’s a sign on the door stating, "School’s Closed." What do you do?
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Writing Process
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Prewriting
Instructional
Grouping
Whole Group (modeling)
same content and instructions
cover more information in the time allotted
Identify who does and doesn’t understand
opportunity to ask questions and answer questions
let students know their expectations
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Prewriting
Instructional
Grouping
Small Group ( practice activity)
share ideas
make corrections to graphic organizers
Interact with peers
Individual (assessment)
evaluate graphic organizer
individual expectations
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Prewriting
Student Grouping
Development
high to medium writers, medium to medium writers, medium to low writers
Linguistic
sit next to a student who speaks English proficiently and Spanish
Culturally
sit with students with the same interest according to student inventory
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9. Narrative Instructional Procedures
Beginning: introduce character(s), describes setting, presents problem or conflict
Middle: adds to events presented in the beginning, conflict heightens, character face roadblocks
End: reconciles all that has happened, reveals outcome of problem or solution
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10. Narrative Instructional Procedures
Choose narrative elements:
character(s): people or personified animals
Setting: place, time, weather, season, time period
problem/conflict: tension or opposition between forces in the plot
Plot: sequence of events involving characters in conflict situations
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Prewriting
Instructional
Procedures
●70% of your write will take place
● choose a topic, title, purpose, audience, and form
● Think and organize thoughts and ideas
- graphic organizers*
- free- writing
- brainstorming
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Graphic Organizer
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Scoring Guide
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14. Accommodations/ Modifications
Developmental
look at pictures to generate ideas
given questions to plan their writing
Use kidspiration to create graphic organizer
Cultural
role play correct behaviors
use visual prompts to redirect inappropriate behavior
Linguistic
paired with a student who speaks English proficiently and speaks Spanish
use tape recorder for notetaking
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Drafting
Instructional Procedures
●Use story map
● Give character, setting, and plot at the beginning
● Write what you think and know about topic
● Connect main ideas and supporting details
● Explain and Support ideas
● Put ideas into sentences and paragraphs
● Each event is a paragraph
● Errors not important
● Content is important
● Remember audience
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Scoring Guide
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Revising
Instructional
Procedures
●Give yourself time before revising
● Reread rough draft
● Make improvements
● Add, subtract, delete, and rearrange material
● Organize writing effectively
● Use powerful introduction and conclusion
● Receive feedback from peers and teacher
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Scoring Guide
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Editing
Instructional
Procedures
●Give yourself time before editing
● check grammar, mechanics, punctuation, capitalization, sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, spelling, and documentation style.
● Read paper slowly aloud
● Make complete sentences
● Use multiple paragraphs
● Make sure sentence began with a capital letter and end with correct punctuation
● Check handwriting
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Scoring Guide
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Practice Activity
Teacher will introduce editing marks and model how they are used using sample writing.
Teacher will pass out copies of writing and index cards.
Students will read story silently.
Teacher will have the students to turn over index cards with an editing mark on them.
Teacher will read the story. When the students’ editing mark needs to be inserted, the student will stand up.
Students will write correct editing marks on their writing.
Student will trade cards with peers until everyone have used all of the editing marks.
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Publishing
Instructional
Procedures
●Time to celebrate
● Final copy w/ illustrations if appropriate
● Let others read (share)
● Use software for interactive version w/pictures, graphics, and recordings
● Present to class
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Scoring Guide
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