Kenowa Hills/GRR Lesson Plan Template (1a)

Topic/Theme/Unit: Unit 1 (Writers learn strategies for writing effective personal narratives) Celebration (Writers celebrate
their accomplishments and writing by creating blogs to share their writing with others.)
Standards Addressed:
Unit 1 covers these standards:
Writing
Speaking/Listening
5.3
5.1
5.3a
5.4a
5.3b
5.1b
5.3c
5.1c
5.3d
5.5
5.3e
5.4
5.5
5.9
5.10

Language
5.1c
5.1d
5.2
5.2e
5.3a

Essential Questions (these stay the same for the entire unit):
How do writers use mentor text to improve the quality of their writing?
How can ideas be generated and selected for personal narrative writing?
How do writers focus & sequence ideas in a draft?
How can writers revise & edit to improve the quality of their writing?
Purpose:
Content: I can celebrate my writing by creating a blog..
Language: celebrate, creating, blog
Social: I can share my writing with others and respond to their writing in an appropriate manner.
Materials/Resources:
Final draft of personal narrative
Chromebooks

FOCUSED INSTRUCTION
(3a, 3d)

1. State the purpose of the lesson.

2. Introduction: We have been working hard on our writings and
creating great pieces. You have created some great narratives
and I want you to be able to share them with others so they
can help you celebrate but also so that they can help you to
continue to grow. You have finished them to the best of your
ability for now but we all know that there is always room for
improvement because we have a growth mindset. I have set it
up so that you can create blogs and share them with another
class that is in Maine. Today we are going to create our blogs
and then publish our first post on them, our personal
narratives.
3. Show students how to create a blog.
a. Go to blogger.com where it will ask them to sign in with
their Google account. (They are to use their school
account regardless of if they have their own from
home.)
b. They will then create a name for their blog and a web
address. The name of the blog must contain only their
first name and grade. Example: Johns Fifth Grade
Blog. The web address must be their

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How will you
Make lesson purposes (content

language-social) clear to your

students
Connect to prior learning?
Ensure relevance and interest in
the content?
Model and demonstrate?
Notice what students are learning
and still need to learn?
Provide multiple explanations for
new concepts?
Allow for student interaction?

GUIDED INSTRUCTION
(3b, 3c)
How will you
Know that each student thought

through and formulated a

response to questions?
Prompt and cue as needed?
Allow students a variety of
methods and modalities in which
to respond?
Assist students in processing
information?

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
(3b, 3c)
How will you
Determine the complexity of the
task?

Provide students with hands-on

experiences and practice?

Determine grouping (pairs,

name.blogspot.com. For example john.blogspot.com

i. Make sure that you cover internet safety here.
They should never give out their first and last
name, birthdate, where they live, etc.
c. It then gives them the option to choose a layout. Let
them take five minutes or so to do so.
d. Show students how to create a new post by clicking on
posts then create new post. They can then copy over
their final draft from their typed copy.
e. Let them publish their writing.
Cover the rules of posting on other classmates writings such
as no bullying, constructive criticism only and what that means,
and the appropriate use of the blogs.
Allow students time to explore their blog as well as their
classmates, Here they can read each others writings and give
words of encouragement.
Explain how they will later get a chance to be partnered up
with two students from the class in Maine in which they will
read their posts and respond throughout the rest of the year.
Celebrate positive behaviors from the day

groups) for this activity?

Ensure that students have

sufficient language support to be

successful in collaborative tasks?
Hold students accountable for
their learning?

INDEPENDENT LEARNING (3e)

How will you
Intervene with students who are
not ready to move on?

Assess at the close of the lesson

to determine who has mastered

content and who needs further
assistance?
Extend the lesson for those who
are ready to move on?
Support students in connecting
concepts to future lessons and in
exploring real-life applications?
Provide opportunities for students
to self-assess?
Offer opportunities for students to
extend their learning?
Endorse independent learning or
more in-depth study of content by
students?

ASSESSMENT (3b, 3c, 3e)

Formative:
Jot-Lot Post-its
One-on-one conferencing
information
Observations during partner
sharing

Summative:

*Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey - Better Learning Through Structured Teaching, 2014.
Self Reflection (Complete this AFTER the lesson is over)