week 5-2

Stage 3 Learning Activities

Writing (older elementary): Give students an assignment to create a story about a character in their life in the first person including feelings. Provide graphic organizer to organize their thoughts. Provide guidelines to beginning, middle and end a story. Have students pair up and read each others stories to provide feedback regarding interest, clarity and language choice. Provide rubric with comments section for students to self evaluate and understand teachers expectation. Reading (older elementary): Before introducing a new story, use LEC to talk about topics that the story brings up and see students prior knowledge and experience. Allow students to read story quietly while filling in KWL. Have a class discussion about the story….their thoughts, ideas and opinions. Ensure that they back up their ideas. In an effort to reach other learners, provide the story in a recording and allow students to draw the sequence of events with thought bubbles in comic form.