Teacher’s Guide- Lesson Plans- Significant Event

Lesson Two: Essential Element - Writing about a Significant Event

Preparation: Audio Clips - Student Page - A Significant Event

Materials: Student Writer's notebooks.

Procedure:

Review audioclips of stories of signifcant events.

Students review list of ideas and choose one event they would like to write about for their first piece.

Students share this event or story with another student or teacher. (If students have not shared stories with partners before, then model with two students how to share stories before the others begin.)

Students begin to write their first narrative piece in their Writer's notebook.

Closure: Students share with the rest of the class a piece of writing that illustrates a significant event.

Follow-up: Continue for the next few days to focus on significant or important events, allowing students to write each day after a brief mini-lesson. End each lesson with a time for sharing and highlighting important shifts in children's writing. See Resource Page for other narrative stories by children's authors to include in mini-lessons. Focus on teaching children the first two steps in the writing process - Think and Share.