Students's writing progress

An Idea for Keep track of student's writing progress. I used two" writing process folders for Lakeshore" because, I have two sections and I used pencils and flags to write my student's names.

Cause and Effect

After we read an informational text about "The penguins", we decided to do cause and effect eggs.

 Cause and Effect Eggs

 

 This week,  we read  fiction :"La tia Lola" and we decided to do our cause and effect tree.

Expository Essay coming soon!!

Coloring Writing and MUPO strategy

This week, my students were revising and editing their personal narrative composition. We used this strategy "Escritura Colorida" (Coloring writing) for revising and my students just love it. This activity help my students to see  how many details they were including in their composition. First, I modeled it for them. Then, they revised their partner composition using different color markers.

I used a student sample with a score 4 to model my student how to use this strategy. After that we highlighted the transitions words, dialog, figurative language, sensorial details, etc. 

 

We used CUPS strategy for editing, so I decided to translate it in Spanish and now our strategy is MUPO.

 I modeled my students how to use this strategy and used a student sample with score 2.

 

 My students using MUPO strategy for editing.

Procedural Text

After we learned about text procedural ,my students showed their best recipe.

Personal Narrative (Pre-Writing)

The first step in the writing process is Pre-writing. Here is the first graphic organizer "Choosing my seed story" . It help my students to focus in just one seed story. The watermelon represent "The Big Topic" and the students can brainstorm three or four seed stories and decided which will be their best story to write, by using the" I Love you strategy" ( I: information, heart: feeling and U: unique).



Here is the "Seed story graphic organizer" that finally will be the story

Thinking in "my visual students" I did this big watermelon and I laminated it. Therefore, every time that we start a new prompt, I use marker to write the big topic on the white rectangle and we use the black seeds to brainstorm potential seed stories and finally, we chose one and  we write it on the white seed. I like to use this Big watermelon  to model my students.

 

 

After modeling the two first steps of the writing process. I decided to post on the wall, so my students have it as a reference.

 Here is the draft (Borrador)

 

Main Idea Song

Onomatopoeia Song

Super Awesome Spectacular Similes (Song)

Understanding Character

Elements of a Short Story (Song)

Writing Anchor Charts for personal Narrative

I did this poster to show my students that their stories need to be seasoned.

 

Types of Lead/Hooks  for Personal Narrative

I decided to teach my students jus three types of leads : Describing the character and the setting, question, Dialog, and Onomatopoeia.

Describing and Question

 



Dialog, and Onomatopoeia.

 

Transition words

I decided to make these cute pencils  and posted in the ceiling, so my students can refers it any time in the classroom. 

 

Water melon Vs. Seed stories help my students to put focus in just one story.

 

Reading Anchor Charts

Differences and similarities between Fiction and No-Fiction

Making Inference anchor chart

 

Text instruction anchor chart

 

All about Theme 

Back to School 2013-2014!!!

I am so exiting to start again this adventure with my Kiddos. It is going to be a great School year !!  My classroom it's ready. This  year my 4th graders and I are going to work hard to reach our GOAL!!!...

 

Pencils Writing Composition

 

I made this big pencils to post my students sample compositions. I have it in the hallway.