Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
A writing workshop about a baboon?!?!?
What happens when we do a writing workshop on a baboon?!?!
As part of grade 6 language arts, students are required to research and report on a specific topic. So, as part of our science unit on flight, the students have all been assigned a famous person pertaining to flight to research and write their biography (biographies are a grade 5 outcome).
Our writing workshops the next couple of weeks concentrate on various skills needed to research, compiling a bibliography, and writing a well-written and interesting biography.
We've looked at the book Barack as an example text.
Now students are looking at researching information about one of our bookshelf friends, Cheeks.
The writing process was furious. There were so many questions to answer and they had to be based in fact with some creativity thrown in.
As part of grade 6 language arts, students are required to research and report on a specific topic. So, as part of our science unit on flight, the students have all been assigned a famous person pertaining to flight to research and write their biography (biographies are a grade 5 outcome).
Our writing workshops the next couple of weeks concentrate on various skills needed to research, compiling a bibliography, and writing a well-written and interesting biography.
We've looked at the book Barack as an example text.
Now students are looking at researching information about one of our bookshelf friends, Cheeks.
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| "Cheeks." Baboon. Isn't he cute? |
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| to read the final copy, come check it out on the wall at the front of our classroom, or email for the pics! |
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Continuing with the Global Read Aloud 2013
In Out of My Mind we've read about Melody, a young girl with cerebral palsy who is looking to find her voice.
In the first chapters we were first surprised by the many different words the author uses to explain how one expresses themselves. This led to a great conversation on synonyms and using colourful words in our writing.
In chapter six, the author tells us about Mrs. V creating flash cards for Melody in different colours. Green for adjectives; blue for verbs; pink for nouns.
We looked at words that described Meoldy's mother so far in the book: (notice the colour)
In the first chapters we were first surprised by the many different words the author uses to explain how one expresses themselves. This led to a great conversation on synonyms and using colourful words in our writing.
We looked at words that described Meoldy's mother so far in the book: (notice the colour)
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