Articulation Day Sharing

Lorraine QuinnBellows Spring Elementary School

Common Core Writing

• Artifact that demonstrates how I have incorporated the Common Core writing into my instruction this school year.

Process

• Collaboration with 2nd Grade Team

• How can I best support their efforts to improve students’ writing skills?

• Design lesson that supports the English Language Arts Standards.

• Used a combination of brainstorming, Kidspiration, Comic Life, and read alouds.

Common Core Focus

• Text Types and Purposes

• Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

Teacher Discussion

• Improve Student Writing Organization

• Sequencing Events (beginning, middle, and end)

• Adding details (adjectives) to “boring” sentences

• Connecting ideas with: and, but, or, first, second, and last

• Goal to improve paragraph writing skills

Lesson Idea: Writing

• Students will write about an event that was personally important to them such as a birthday, spring break, vacation, learning a new skill, or participating in something new.

• Brainstormed ideas with class to come up with a variety of ideas…what will work, what will not.

• Used Kidspiration template to plan story.

Kidspiration Template

• Great way to help students create an outline.

• Make decisions early to plan sequence of events.

• Students used their completed document as a resource for final product.

Students Love to Share their Stories!

Final Product

• Comic Life that describes an exciting event in their lives.

• Make sure to include a beginning, middle, and end with details.

• Use transition words such as first, next, soon, later, afterwards, before, finally, then, at last

Reflections

• Collaboration with my teams has been a very successful way to implement the curriculum.

• Collaborative planning to incorporate the writing standards is a work in progress.

• Goals include a focus on improving writing paragraphs.

Reflections

• Students enjoyed reading stories aloud.

• Students also learned how to use clip art and take a screen shot.

• First steps for implementing writing standards.

Done!Any questions?