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Lucy Calkin's Units of Study for Primary Writing Standards: CCLS for ELA



October 17-21, 2011 Some students will start revising today. ||
 * || **Monday** || **Tuesday** || **Wednesday** || **Thursday** || **Friday** ||
 * =**Writing**= |||||||||| Story elements/ Focus on Character development ||
 * Connection || Writers demonstrate understanding of a story they read by using a graphic organizer to write a reading response. || Writers add details to their stories by using adverbs to describe their character's actions ||  || Writers write a good ending by adding a strong feeling
 * Writers get ready to publish by revising their writing using a rubric and copying to clean paper if they are done. || Writers celebrate their writing by sharing their small moments with an audience ||
 * Mini-Lesson ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

October 3-7,2011
 * **__Writing__** ||||||||||  ||
 * Teaching Point || Writers identify with a partner the small moment written about in a single text. || Writers begin writing their small moments by sketching it across three pages. || Writers plan with a partner how to add details to their small moment by adding adjectives to their writing. || Writers reread their pieces to make revisions by adding supporting details. || Writers edit their small moment by using a rubric. ||
 * Mini-Lesson || Read Lily and her Purple Purse and then model retelling small moment to my partner. || Model a think aloud about my small moment. Then demonstrate using my 3 page booklet. Touching each page as I retell (first, next last). || Using one of the student’s writing and the ELMO model how to add adjectives- details to his writing. || Use an ELMO to demonstrate how to add details to a small moment. || Introduce rubric and model how to use the rubric. ||
 * Independent Work || Have students work with a partner and retell small moment. Then working in partnership to record small moment. || Students will share their small moment with a partner They will touch their 3 page booklet. || Students will work in partnership to add details to their writing. || Students will work independently on adding details to their small moment. || Students will review their piece using a copy of the rubric. ||

September 26-30, 2011Writing Teaching points = = =Literacy: September 8 and 9, 2011= Mid-workshop T.P. Writers become independent writers by reviewing and listing what we do during Writer’s Workshop || Writers make our Writer’s Workshop run smoothly by listing our routines ||
 * **__Writing__** |||||||||| Small Moments ||
 * Connection || Writers brainstorm topics for writing their small moments by recording important events in their lives. || Writers begin writing their small moment by choosing one important event in their lives and recording each element of their stories in a graphic organizer. || Writers describe how they looked at the time of their small moment by recording their physical appearance ||  ||   ||
 * **__Writing__** ||||||||||  ||
 * T.P ||  ||   ||   || Writers show what we know as writers by completing a baseline piece

=Literacy: September 12-16,2011= Help finishing/phrasing || Writers generate ideas for their goal for second grade by brainstorming possible options || Writers generate their goal for second grade by choosing one idea and writing it. ||
 * **__Writing__** |||||||||| **Launching the Writer’s Workshop/Portraits and Goals for Second Grade** ||
 * Teaching Point || Writers become independent writers by reviewing and listing what we do during Writer’s Workshop || Writers make the Writer’s Workshop run smoothly by practicing our routines || Writers describe themselves by using a graphic organizer…

Writing T.P. for the week of September 19-23, 2011
 * **__Writing__** |||||||||| **Launching Writer’s Workshop/Writing about themselves** ||
 * Connection || Writers revise and edit their paragraph by using a writing rubric. || Writers get ready to publish by copying their goal for second grade and their paragraph to clean paper || Writers begin their self-portrait by using construction paper, colored pencils and crayons. || Writers get ready to publish their first writing piece by finishing their self-portraits || Writers celebrate their writing by sharing their goals for second grade, their paragraphs about themselves and their self-portraits with an audience. ||