Sharing or Create an Animal Projects

Learning Targets

Students will understand:

• How to orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
• How to use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
• How to use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
• How to use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
• Techniques to provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
• How to engage in the writing process. 

Students will know: 

• The steps of the writing process.
• Transitional words/phrases.
• How to sequence the events of a story.

Procedure

Engaging, Relevant Introduction Activity: 20 minutes, at individual desks

• Tell students they have 20 minutes to put any finishing touches on their story and pictures. Anything else will have to be finished for homework. 
• Refer them to the anchor chart made yesterday about what needs to be included.
• Encourage students to have multiple people peer review their story. 
• Set timer for 20 minutes

Lesson: 45 minutes, at carpet

• Have students bring their projects to the carpet.
• Remind students of proper audience behavior. 
• Allow them to volunteer to share their stories. When students come to the front to share they must at least tell the audience the following things: animal’s name, animals basic needs, where animal lives, and illustration of animal in its habitat.

Closure:5-10 minutes, in a circle at the carpet

• Allow students to reflect on the process of creating an animal and writing a story about it by passing the talking stick around the circle. 
• Prompt students to share ideas about things they liked/dislike, certain animals they learned about, or things they would change about the project.
• Hang student’s drawings up.