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Year four
Reading & writing
Narrative Writing: Seed Ideas
July 31, 2015
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By Emily Wakabi

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Narrative Writing: Seed Ideas

By Emily Wakabi
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Grade
Year four
Subject
Reading & writingGenre WritingNarrative Writing
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W.3.3.a
English Language Arts and ReadingGrade 22.11.A 2.11.B.ii 2.12.A Grade 33.11.A 3.11.B.i 3.11.B.ii 3.12.A Grade 44.11.A 4.11.B.i 4.11.B.ii 4.12.A
EnglishGrade TwoW.2.10.c W.2.10.e W.2.10.h Grade ThreeW.3.8.c W.3.8.f Grade FourW.4.7.d W.4.7.i
English Language ArtsGrade 2A 2.2 Grade 3A 2.2 Grade 4A
English Language ArtsGrade 32.4.C.1 2.4.C.2 Grade 42.4.C.1
EnglishYear 2ACELY1671.a Year 3ACELA1482.b ACELT1601.a Year 4ACELA1493.a ACELT1607.a ACELY1694.c
EnglishLevel 2W.VCELT229.1 W.VCELY230.1 Level 3W.VCELA262.2 W.VCELA262.5 W.VCELT264.1 Level 4W.VCELA292.1 W.VCELT298.1 W.VCELY299.3

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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to think of small ideas to use for writing personal narratives.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Ask the class, "Don’t you love listening to a good story? Have you ever listened to your friend or family member tell a good story and were so amazed by the story that you didn’t want it to ever end?"
  • Tell the students to put their thumbs up if they have ever experienced that before.
  • Tell your students, "I love listening to good stories! All good stories have key ingredients that make you want to listen to them."

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

(10 minutes)
  • Explain that today, the students are going to write Personal narratives, which are true stories that happened in their lives.
  • Explain that personal narratives can be very interesting to write and read when they are about a small, specific moment that has happened in someone's life. In a short story, the speaker can include how she was feeling, what she was thinking, and what she saw.
  • Compare a personal narrative to a watermelon: the big event is a watermelon slice, and the details are seeds. Ideas about small moments can be called Seed ideas.
  • To confirm that students understand, ask, "What is a personal narrative?"

Guided practise

(15 minutes)
  • Say, "Let’s make a watermelon and seed T-chart together."
  • Draw a T-chart on the board. Label the columns with a picture of a watermelon and a picture of a seed.
  • Say, "What are some watermelon ideas you can think of? As in, what are big moments that have happened in your life?"
  • Ask, "What is a small moment that happened within that big moment?"
  • Record the students' big and small moments on the T-chart. Collect at least 3-4 ideas from students.

Independent working time

(15 minutes)
  • Tell students to come up with their own T-charts of watermelon and seed ideas in order to be able to write their personal narratives.
  • Challenge students to come up with at least three big moments and three small moments.
  • Have them complete this assignment on lined paper.
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Differentiation

  • Enrichment:Students who are finished with writing the three big and small moments may go on to choose their favorite moments and start writing their first rough drafts.
  • Support:Students who need extra support may need sentence stems left on the board: A big event that happened in my life was when... I can remember the moment when...

Assessment

(5 minutes)

Before Independent Working Time, stop and ask students to turn and tell one another about personal narratives and the difference between watermelon and seed ideas.

  • Walk around and listen to their conversations, then call on two students to share their responses with the rest of the class.
  • Assess students based on their discussions.

Review and closing

(5 minutes)
  • Tell students that creating stories can be a fun experience, since it helps them remember events from their own lives.
  • Ask students, "Why is it important to pick a small or seed moment in order to write a personal narrative?"

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