Chapter Planner WRITER’S WORKSHOP TIPS
SCORING RUBRIC
Follow these ideas and tips to help you and your class get the most out of the Writer’s Workshop:
Personal Narrative
• Encourage students to keep a writing journal or picture journal to record important or interesting personal experiences. • Invite students to bring in pictures or drawings of important events. Discuss how these events might make good personal narrative topics. • Invite local officials (such as the mayor, an entertainer, or the principal) to tell the class about an event they remember from their own childhood.
Point Values 0 = not evident 1 = minimal evidence of mastery 2 = evidence of development toward mastery 3 = strong evidence of mastery 4 = outstanding evidence of mastery
Ideas
POINTS
tells about a real event
LiNK
Organization
Use the following titles to offer your students examples of well-crafted personal narratives:
has a logical sequence
Author: A True Story by Helen Lester
has a beginning
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
has a middle
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
has an ending
CONNECT WITH GRAMMAR
Voice is written from the writer’s point of view
Throughout the Writer’s Workshop, look for opportunities to integrate an understanding of sentence structure, conventions, and sentence variety when writing personal narratives.
Word Choice
• Discuss how using a variety of sentence types (telling, commanding, asking, and exclaiming) can make writing more interesting.
uses words appropriately uses personal pronouns
• Ask students to edit their writing to use uppercase letters to begin each sentence.
Sentence Fluency has correct sentence structure
• Have students edit their writing to add end marks in the correct places.
uses a variety of sentence types
Conventions
INDEPENDENT WRITING CENTER ACTIVITIES
grammar
Writing Center Activities give students hands-on experience exploring grammar and writing concepts. Students can work independently or in small groups to practice integrating grammar and writing skills using various learning modalities. A range of Writing Center Activities appears on pages OV-18–OV-21 of the Teacher Edition.
spelling punctuation and capitalization
Total AA full-size, reproducible Student Rubric and a Teacher Scoring Rubric can be found on pages T-276 and T-277.
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