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Expository Writing(News Articles)

Overview of Daily Topics


Day 1 What is the purpose of a newspaper? Inquiry Investigation Day 6 Using our characteristic organizer make a Weekend Newspaper. Day 11 Investigating a prompt for an article with a group of 2 or 3. Day 2 Introduce vocabulary with newspaper activity. Day 3 Identify Characteristics of a news article using organizer. Day 4 Who are our readers? Brainstorm a list of possible topics. Day 9 Writing a final draft of our Weekend Newspaper for publication. Day 14 Looking back at our expanded brainstorm lists to choose topics for our own newspaper. Day 5 Listing at least ideas for our topics. What is important in an article? Day 10 Writing a final draft of our Weekend Newspaper for publication. Day 15 Beginning our articles. Focus on an interesting Headline. Revising and editing as we go through each article. Day 20 Publish

Day 7 Using our characteristic organizer make a Weekend Newspaper. Day 12 Finishing the organizer and drafting an article individually.

Day 8 Reading and editing our Weekend Newspaper. Rubric/checklist Day 13 Looking at the template and rubric for our own newspapers. What will we need to include? List -

Day 16 Writing articles focusing on the illustration and photo captions Revising and editing as we go through each article.

Day 17 Writing articles focusing on the sales talk Revising and editing as we go through each article.

Day 18 Writing articles focusing on the interesting words Revising and editing as we go through each article.

Day 19 Publish

***after Day 4 a very good activity is to model writing a newspaper using information that you got from the interview. Then, give each table group a piece of chart paper and a topic from those listed. Have them agree on a headline that each student writes 2 sentences to create the article.

Day 1 What is the purpose of a newspaper? Inquiry Investigation

Materials: Newspapers at each table Post its to write the purpose of the articleAnchor chart made together what are reasons people write? Connection: What are some reasons we read or write? (Purpose) Make a chart Authors Purpose to display during the lesson today. Teach: There are reasons we, as readers, choose to read certain texts. Today, we are going to look at different articles in the newspaper and figure out why they were written. When we are working with our groups we can discuss what the clues in the headlines and pictures help us to understand about the article. Model a news story on the smart board. Discuss together what the purpose of the article is. How do you know? Write the type and the proof on a post it. This is what we will be doing in our groups today. Link: While you are looking at the newspapers today work with your group to see how many types of articles there are is there more than one reason for a newspaper? Share: Have groups share out at least one article that they labeled and the proof they wrote on their post it.

Day 2 Introduce vocabulary with newspaper activity.

Materials: Newspapers Post it notes vocabulary terms on anchor chart for writing wall. Connection: Yesterday, we looked at the reason people write articles in newspapers and why we read them. Today we are going to look at the different parts of a newspaper. These are important terms that we need to know so we can write a newspaper. Make a chart Vocabulary to display during the lesson today. Teach: Just like there are fiction text features and non fiction text features there are text features in newspapers. Today we will learn about these so we can use them in our writing. Description, expository text, news article, text organization, headline, adjectives, five senses, sensory details, authors personality (voice), topic, details, writing prompt, writing situation, sentence variety, word choice, revise, proofread/edit. Model each term as you define them on the smartboard with the newspaper article you are displaying. In groups have students try to locate some of the terms and mark with a post it. Link: While you are looking in the newspapers look for the terms that we talked about today. Share: Have groups share out at least one of the vocabulary words they labeled.

Day 3 Identify Characteristics of a news article using organizer. Materials: : Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? (Organizer) Newspapers Connection: We know that newspapers are written for a reason and that there are important words for newspapers today we are going to investigate the important questions that news articles answer. Teach: In articles we can find certain information who, what, when, where, why, how Today, we will look through an article with our partner to see if we can find this information together and record it on our graphic organizer. Link: Knowing what questions are answered in a news article will help us to write our own articles. Share: Have groups share out their articles and organizers.

Day 4 Who are our readers? Brainstorm a list of possible topics. Materials: : Audience Graphic organizer, people to interview. Connection: Weve learned that there are different purposes for news articles. Today, we are going to talk to people about what they would like to read in our class newspaper. Teach: Today, we are going to learn how to do an interview. We will be interviewing people to find out what they would like to read in our class newspaper. Why is that important? List answers Who would be good candidates to interview? List answers Model an interview with a student. Model writing answers as they are giving them to you. Link: Today we will interview people to find out what types of articles we should write. Share: Have groups share out their interviews

Day 5 Listing at least ideas for our topics. What is important in an article? Materials: Writers Notebook Interview organizer Connection: Yesterday we interviewed people to find out what they would like to read in our classroom newspapers. Teach: Today, we will brainstorm ideas for articles we could write. First, we are going to talk with our table groups about the ideas that we got from our interviews. Then, we are going to make a list of ideas we have that we could write about in our writers notebook. We are going to write the idea and then skip 3 lines after each one so that we have somewhere to expand on our ideas later. Model making a list on the smartboard of ideas you could write about. Link: The ideas we come up with today are the articles we will be writing later. We need to think about what our interviews taught us and what we know about or can learn about. Share: Have everyone share an idea that they came up with.

Grade 2: A News Article

Who?

What?

When?

Where?

Why?

How?

Audience
What do they want to read? Directions: Interview someone who would read our class newspaper. Ask them what they would enjoy reading or what they would like to learn more about. Who I interviewed: _______________________________ What would you like to know about our classroom? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________

What kinds of things would you enjoy hearing about from our classroom? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________

Day 6 Using our characteristic organizer make a Weekend Newspaper. Materials: characteristic organizer / Weekend Newspaper Handout Connection: We have talked about what we find in newspapers. Today, using the characteristics of newspapers, we are going to write some news about our weekend. Teach: Review the characteristics - Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? What are some ideas for topics? Model making a list on the smart board of ideas you could write about. Link: As you think about your articles and write your weekend news, think about your audience. How will you give them the news? What will be a great way to get your readers attention? Share: have students share their weekend news with their writing partner before turning it in.

Day 7 Reading and revising our Weekend Newspaper. Materials: Rubric/checklist/ Weekend Newspaper Handout/post it notes Connection: Yesterday, we wrote our weekend news. We met with a partner and shared it. Teach: Today we are going to use our rubric and talk with our writing partner to revise our newspaper. We want to make sure we have lots of good details and interesting words to make it interesting for our readers. Model revising a newspaper on the smartboard. Model incorporating details and descriptive words to make it more interesting. Link: When we revise we are looking to make our writing more interesting and more clear. After your partner gives you ideas go back and write your revisions on your post it notes so you will have your ideas where you need them when we write the final copy. Share: Choose 2-3 students who made very clear revisions to share with the class have a discussion about how these were good revisions and why.

Day 8 Reading and editing our Weekend Newspaper. Materials: Rubric/checklist/ Weekend Newspaper Handout/post it notes Connection: Yesterday, we revised our weekend news. We met with a partner and shared it. Teach: Today we are going to use our rubric and talk with our writing partner to edit our newspaper. We are going to do our 3 step process: First editing for punctuation Second editing for capitalization Third editing for spelling Model editing a newspaper on the smartboard. Model doing each step separately with the above colored crayon. Model looking for one area at a time. Link: Today when we edit we will do our first look for punctuation. Next, we will check after each sentence where there is punctuation and make sure we have a capital starting each sentence. Then well look for proper nouns and capitalize them too. Last well look for words that are not spelled correctly and well use our personal dictionaries and class dictionaries to spell correctly. Share: Choose 2-3 students who made good use of their editing time and ask them to share with the class.

Day 9 and 10 Writing a final draft of our Weekend Newspaper for publication. Materials: Rubric/checklist/ Weekend Newspaper Handout/and new copy of newspaper template for final copy Connection: Now we have revised and edited our news. We are ready for publication. When we write our weekend news, its very important to make all of our changes on our final copy. Teach: We are going to place our papers side by side and touch each word and symbol as we rewrite using our corrections. TTW model this process on the smart board for students so they can see how she checks each word before writing.checking post its for revision and crayon editing marks as well. Link: Today, just like I did on the smartboard, we are going to write word by word and symbol by symbol to make sure that we are making all of our corrections on our final copy. Dont forget to add all of that detail into your pictures too! Share: Display newspapers and allow students time to read and enjoy classmates papers.

Day 11 Investigating a prompt for an article with a group of 2 or 3.

Materials: List of topics that we brainstormed on chart paper or a smart notebook page. Chart paper for each group of 2 or 3 students. Connection: We have written our own weekend news. Now we are going to look at how writing a newspaper and writing to a prompt are alike. Teach: Like we wrote our classroom news with a group we are going to take a topic, narrow it down, and then write an article (paragraph) that has an interesting topic sentence, at least 3 supporting details that are very descriptive and a closing sentence. TTW model this using one of the topics. Link: Today, just like I did on the smartboard, we are going to work with our partners to write our article. When were writing were going to be sure that we talk about what we should write before we write it since this is a group topic. Remember, good writers rehearse what theyll write so that they can get all of the good details included. Share: Display articles and allow students time to read and enjoy classmates papers.

Day 12 Finishing the organizer and drafting an article individually.

Materials: Charts with the articles we wrote using our prompt from yesterday. Connection: Yesterday, we got some great ideas with our partners about what we could do to narrow down our topic and support it with details. Teach: Today, we are going to look at what we wrote with our group yesterday and we will be creating our own article. We can add on to what was created so were writing another paragraph with more details or we can rewrite what was written yesterday in our own way. Link: TTW demonstrate the way she will rewrite some of the paragraph and also add on using the example from yesterday. Share: Choose 1-4 students to share with the group how they changed or added onto their article.

Day 13 Looking at the template and rubric for our own newspapers. What will we need to include?

Materials: Newspaper template for individuals, rubric and writers notebooks. Connection: We have practiced writing articles with partners and a short newspaper about our own weekend. Now, we are going to choose some topics to write in our own newspaper to share with faculty and students at our school and our families. Teach: Show the template for the individual newspaper. What are some ideas for writing in our papers? What kinds of information do you want to include? Brainstorm topics (ie groundhog day, superbowl, dental health month, weather, what other ideas do we have? Looking at our rubric, what are the things we need to include to meet the expectations? Link: TTW give students time to brainstom in their own writers notebooks what types of articles they need to include to meet the expectations. How many will you need? Share: Choose 1-4 students to share what they wrote as the brainstormed.

Day 14 Looking back at our expanded brainstorm lists to choose topics for our own newspaper.

Materials: Newspaper template for individuals, rubric and writers notebooks. Connection: Yesterday we brainstormed our topics for our newspapers. Today we are going to choose 5 to use. Teach: As we choose each topic, we will use bullets and list at least 4 different ideas for each one example: valentines day *students will bring in valentines *we will be celebrating it a week early at Boone Trail *valentines day is a holiday that is celebrated in our country *the symbol of valentines day is a heart/cupid/ colors you usually see *lots of people give flowers or chocolate that day Link: Writing these ideas helps us to narrow down what we will write about in our article. We want to list as MANY ideas as we can that go with our topic so that our article will be interesting. Share: Choose 1-4 students to share what they wrote as the brainstormed.

Day 15 Beginning our articles. Focus on an interesting Headline. Revising and editing as we go through each article.

Materials: Newspaper template for individuals, rubric and writers notebooks. Connection: Today we are going to look through our 5 article ideas and we are going to choose one to start with. Teach: Using our valentines day idea TTW write the article quickly getting ideas down. Leaving out some good details and editing so that we can use this to make that example in the middle of the writing time. example: valentines day *students will bring in valentines *we will be celebrating it a week early at Boone Trail *valentines day is a holiday that is celebrated in our country *the symbol of valentines day is a heart/cupid/ colors you usually see *lots of people give flowers or chocolate that day Link: Today, we will choose our first article and write it as we have practiced. way through the writing time model adding in details (to revise) and editing their paragraph using our 3 color system. Have the code posted so that they can remember doing it step by step. This is a quick review. First editing for punctuation Second editing for capitalization Third editing for spelling

Share: Choose 1-4 students to share what they wrote as the brainstormed.

Day 16 Writing articles focusing on the illustration and photo captions. Revising and editing as we go through each article.

Materials: Newspaper template for individuals, rubric and writers notebooks. Connection: Today we are going to look through our 5 article ideas and we are going to choose another to write. Teach: What kind of a photo caption could we add to illustrations. Using pictures on smartboard slide brainstorm photo caption ideas. Link: continuing to focus on our best writing to interest our readers and catchy photo captions. Revise using post it notes. (At least 3 revisions per article) First editing for punctuation Second editing for capitalization Third editing for spelling

Share: Choose 1-4 students to share daily

Day 17 Writing articles focusing on the sales talk. Revising and editing as we go through each article.

Materials: Newspaper template for individuals, rubric and writers notebooks. Connection: Today we are going to look at ways to sell something. What are things we saw being sold in the newspapers we read? Teach: Each group looks though a newspaper to find things that are for sale. What will we sell in our newspaper? This is how newspapers pay for their printing through businesses buying ads. Link: Using the information from the advertisements we will sell something in our newspaper. Revise using post it notes. (At least 3 revisions per article) First editing for punctuation Second editing for capitalization Third editing for spelling

Share: Choose 1-4 students to share daily

Day 17 Writing articles focusing on the interesting words. Revising and editing as we go through each article.

Materials: Newspaper template for individuals, rubric and writers notebooks. Connection: Today, we are going to look through and see which word/words we are using over and over. How can we make our writing more interesting. Teach: Some words are just overused like: cool, nice, fun, happy.what are some other words we can find for those words. Introduce the thesaurus as a tool. Link: We can use the thesaurus to find interesting words for our own writing. Revise using post it notes. (At least 3 revisions per article) First editing for punctuation Second editing for capitalization Third editing for spelling

Share: Choose 1-4 students to share daily

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