Text Structure: Chronological Order Part 2
Objective
Big Idea
Warm Up
Today's class will begin with students logging in and combing through articles on Tween Tribune. On their daily agenda I have a challenge - locate an article written in chronological order to share with your table and or the class. This is fun for the students because they love Tween Tribune, but the really cool part is when I hear them discussing and analyzing text.
Here is one example from students today.
Lesson
Today's lesson continues from where we left off yesterday, so I will put the "practice" slide in the powerpoint back up on the screen. The lesson will be a review of the chronological order practice from yesterday. We will read the piece aloud and students will share answers, questions, concerns and check or correct themselves as needed. The goal is for students to have a good example piece with graphic organizer and notes in their binder.
Independent Work/Wrap Up
Using the example piece and graphic organizer as examples, students will write a brief example of chronological order. I will walk around answering questions and conferring with students about their ideas.
This can be done as a journal entry or separately, depending on whether you'd like to collect it or not.
To wrap up in the last 5-10 minutes, I will ask a few students to share their writing with the class on the SMART board. We will point out what makes their writing a good example -use of key/signal words, numbers, dates, etc.
