Standards Addressed:
- RI.1.1
- RI.1.2
- RI.1.4
- RI.1.7
- SL.1.1
- SL.1.2
- SL.1.5
- W.1.2
- W.1.7
- Level 3
- 3-5 periods
- Cooperative Writing based on Research
- Unit 1
Lesson Materials/Resources
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Students will read informational text based on their symbol of choice: Mount Rushmore, Lincoln Monument, White House, California State Flag, dollar bill)
Students will select important details from text.
Students will collaborate with peers to write an explanatory paragraph, writing topic and closing sentences together, detail sentences individually, with final revising and editing together. Students write each sentence on sentence strips and compose complete paragraph on a pocket chart.
Assessment/CFU
Teacher observation of student cooperation, highlighted research packets, and completed paragraph.
Follow-up with individual explanatory paragraph to be assessed based on writing rubric.
Opening/Warmup/Connecting Prior Knowledge
Students have previously been taught a few country's symbols and important facts on them, using GLAD pictorials. (American Flag, Bald Eagle, Liberty Bell, Statue of Liberty)
Students also knew how to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, America the Beautiful, Star-Spangled Banner.
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