Teaching Writing Skills All Year Long
LESSONS ORGANIZED BY UNIT
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- Teach convention skills in context by tying the purpose of the convention to the mode of writing.
K-2 Conventions | Grades 3-12 Conventions - Download 10 common purposes conventions serve or purchase a grade-level scaffold of purposes according to the standards.
THE DIFFERENT GENRES OF ARGUMENT
- Argumentative v. Persuasive Writing
- Advance students from opinion to persuasive to argumentative
- Persuasive letters lead to argumentative writing
- Evaluate 4 factors in argument analysis
- Infer perspective with TV commercials
- Create bumper stickers
- Things wrong with the world (Rules to change, Problems to fix, Favors to ask, Suggestions to make)
- Confirm or contradict a Snapple fact
- Write critiques based on 5 big questions
INITIAL RESEARCH
REASONS & EXPLANATIONS
FURTHER RESEARCH & DATA
ORGANIZE THE BODY
MEMORABLE ENDINGS
SKILLS WITHIN ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING
THE DIFFERENT GENRES OF INFORMATIVE
SMALLER RESEARCH PRODUCTS
TOPIC SELECTION
DEVELOP & PUMP UP IDEAS
- Provide more details within a dissected-web pre-write
- Use broad categories in a T-Chart for compare-contrast writing
- Develop reasons with legs of support (1 Table, 4 Tables)
- Paraphrase author ideas
PRINT & ONLINE SOURCES
SOPHISTICATED WRITING SKILLS
THE DIFFERENT GENRES OF NARRATIVE
PLAN THE PLOT