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1 Title: Pet Peeve Descriptive Writing Subject: Language Arts Standard: Writing Process Grade: 3 Date: May 2006 Vision Lesson Summary We want our students to become independent, confident writers. Students already have knowledge of adjectives. This lesson gives the students additional opportunities to incorporate adjectives within the context of a descriptive paragraph. Goal(s) of This Lesson Students will improve and enhance their writing using adjectives. Prior Knowledge/Pre-Assessment Identify nouns Identify adjectives Choose a topic and write details Team Members Erin Blatnica, Fairwood Katie Bodnar, Big Creek Roberta Caleris, BPM Denise Ernst, Brookview Cindy Frontczak, Big Creek Lori Waschak, Brookview Reflections/Insights The students were highly motivated by the topic. The graphic organizer was helpful in getting their thoughts down on paper. Facilitators: Jennifer Ditz and LaVerne S. Thomas Berea City School District Page 1

2 Title: Pet Peeve Descriptive Writing Subject: Language Arts Relationship to the Curriculum Standard: Writing Process Grade: 3 Date: May 2006 Ohio Academic Content Standards Subject Benchmark Indicators A. Generate ideas and determine a 2. Develop a clear main idea for writing Language Arts topic suitable for writing 4. Use organizational strategies (e.g. brainstorming, lists, Writing Processes webs, and Venn Diagrams) to plan writing Mathematics E. Use revision strategies to improve the coherence of ideas, clarity of sentence structure and the effectiveness of word choice. 11. Add descriptive words and details and delete extraneous information Science Social Studies Technology Berea City School District Page 2

3 Title: Pet Peeve Descriptive Writing Subject: Language Arts Standard: Writing Process Grade: 3 Date: May 2006 Materials and Resources Unit Suggestions Chart paper Notebook paper Manila paper for graphic organizers highlighters Overhead projector Overhead of My Pet Peeve Worksheet My Pet Peeve/Shorter Weeks Worksheet (one per student) My Pet Peeve Revised Worksheet (one per student) Grocery Store Pet Peeves (example) Writing Rubric (copies as needed) Bubbles of Fun Worksheet (optional) If you would like to do Bubbles of Fun to brainstorm descriptive words before the first lesson, it is attached to this plan. Notes: Berea City School District Page 3

4 Title: Pet Peeve Descriptive Writing Subject: Language Arts Lesson Plan Suggested Time Frame and Steps Day One 15 minutes Teacher Direction, Support and Key Questions Mini-lesson on eliminating extraneous information Have a discussion about how in our writing, we are having a problem with adding information that does not support the main idea. Today, we are going to practice revising a paragraph. Standard: Writing Process Grade: 3 Date: May 2006 Anticipated Student Questions and Student Learning Activities Responses Students will look over the paragraph independently to see if they can find the extraneous information. Evaluation/ Assessment Teacher shows the students a model of a paragraph that will be revised together as a class on the overhead. Tell the students that the task is to identify and delete the extraneous information. There are 3 sentences that do not support the topic. Teacher will provide a second paragraph that requires revision independently. Using the overhead projector, students will identify the 3 sentences that do not support the topic. The students will work independently to create the revisions. How many sentences do I have to identify? The teacher will circulate and assist as needed. Berea City School District Page 4

5 Title: Pet Peeve Descriptive Writing Subject: Language Arts Lesson Plan Suggested Time Frame Teacher Direction, Support and Steps and Key Questions Day Two Mini-lesson on adding details Standard: Writing Process Grade: 3 Date: May 2006 Anticipated Student Questions and Student Learning Activities Responses Evaluation/ Assessment Teachers show students the same paragraph that they used yesterday. Identify the descriptive words that are used in this paragraph. Discuss that now you are going to create your own pet peeve paragraphs. Students highlight words in the paragraph that are descriptive. Give the students a piece of manila paper to identify a specific place or person first. Then, choose one noun for each pet peeve to describe the place or person. Using a graphic organizer, students will identify adjectives for each noun. (See attached Grocery Store Pet Peeves example) Students had difficulty finding building as an adjective to creations. Needed a lot of teacher prompts Teacher models their own pet peeves on chart paper on the board. (See attached Grocery Store Pet Peeves example) Students produce a pet peeve graphic organizer. Day Three Drafting Students use their graphic organizers from the day before to draft their pet peeve paragraphs. Berea City School District Page 5

6 Title: Pet Peeve Descriptive Writing Subject: Language Arts Lesson Plan Suggested Time Frame and Steps Day Four Teacher Direction, Support and Key Questions Revision Standard: Writing Process Grade: 3 Date: May 2006 Student Learning Activities Students revise their pet peeve paragraphs utilizing adding details and eliminating extraneous information. Anticipated Student Questions and Responses Evaluation/ Assessment Day Five Editing Students edit their pet peeve paragraphs utilizing the editing rubric. Day Six Publishing Students publish their pet peeve paragraphs. Students will be evaluated with a rubric Berea City School District Page 6

7 Title: Pet Peeve Descriptive Writing Subject: Language Arts Standard: Writing Process Grade: 3 Date: May 2006 Differentiated Instructional Support Extensions Peer editing Modify the number of pet peeves Modify the number adjectives Give them a cloze assignment (example: fill in the blanks with adjectives) The students write a story about their pet peeves that include several paragraphs using descriptive words. Technology Connections Students will use word processing software to publish their writing. Adjectives: Literature Links Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst Berea City School District Page 7

8 Name: My Pet Peeves I am a pretty agreeable person, but there are a few things around my house that drive me crazy. One such thing is when my younger brothers go into my bedroom and destroy my building creations. My three-year-old brothers both have blonde hair. I also get upset when my sister sings at the dinner table. Her favorite sport is gymnastics. My greatest pet peeve is when my older brother taps his pencil on the kitchen table while I am studying spelling words. I wish I had a fish tank in my room. My brothers and sister are really great, but there are moments when they make me crazy! Berea City School District

9 Name: Shorter Weeks I think the school week should be shortened to four days for three reasons. I am in the third grade this year. The first reason is I could have more time to play on the weekends. My dog likes to play with his Frisbee outside. The second reason is I could get more sleep so I could pay more attention in class. I sleep with my stuffed animal every night. The last reason is I could have more time to watch TV and play video games. I hope I get a new video game for my birthday. I think a four-day week just makes more sense! Berea City School District

10 Name: My Pet Peeves (Revised) I am a pretty agreeable person, but there are a few things around my house that drive me crazy. One such thing is when my younger brothers go into my bedroom and destroy my building creations. I also get upset when my sister sings at the dinner table. My greatest pet peeve is when my older brother taps his pencil on the kitchen table while I am studying spelling words. My brothers and sister are really great, but there are moments when they make me crazy! Berea City School District

11 Name: My Pet Peeves (Answer Key) I am a pretty agreeable person, but there are a few things around my house that drive me crazy. One such thing is when my younger brothers go into my bedroom and destroy my building creations. I also get upset when my sister sings at the dinner table. My greatest pet peeve is when my older brother taps his pencil on the kitchen table while I am studying spelling words. My brothers and sister are really great, but there are moments when they make me crazy! Berea City School District

12 Writing Rubric Student Name: 0 Not present 1 Needs improvement 2 3 Developing Competent Uses descriptive words Avoids using extraneous information Written in complete sentences Uses correct spelling Uses correct punctuation and capitalization Uses a topic sentence Total Points: Berea City School District

13 Grocery Store Pet Peeves (example) Cart squeaky wheels sticky handle cold hard Dirty plastic red Aisles narrow big boxes messy tall shelves cluttered clean long Customers whiny kids rude people slow impatient friendly happy talkative young old Lines long unending slow self-serve short quick many/few Berea City School District

14 BUBBLES OF FUN A describing word helps you imagine how something looks, feels, smells, sounds, or tastes. Write a list of describing words on each bubble to fit the bubble s category. words that describe size words that describe taste or smell words that describe sounds words that describe how something feels words that describe weather words that describe feelings Berea City School District Page 14

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