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Writing Curricular Calendar, Second Grade, 2011-2012 12cooking) is the very best it can be. By Nancy Schroeder, Gregory, Marc Morrison, andAndrea Bodley (Sample Minilesson F)• Today, writers, I want to teach you that not only can you revise using strips and flaps toadd into your booklets, but also by trying a second draft! You might rewrite your entirebook or chapter inside your book. You could start from scratch, maybe with a new titleor idea, and rewrite your book or chapter, putting more power behind your words..• Today I want to teach you when we are trying to write books that we want others tolearn from, we can turn to books that we have learned from to notice what those writersdid, and we can use their writing to make our writing better.Bend IV: Preparing for Publication• Today I want to teach you that as you revise your best book you have to really think,“What else do I need to include in my book to help teach others and to show that I reallycare about my topic?” One thing you can do is meet with your writing partner to actuallyteach the information. Then you will see how your partner responds. We need to beprepared to respond to questions that our partners might have around our topic.◦ Tip: Your partner will be listening and asking questions like, “But I don’tunderstand. What do you mean?” or “Why is this important?” This will help younotice what other information to include!• Today I want to teach you that writers reread our writing like detectives. We search forwords that need to be fixed up and spelled better. As second graders, you already knowof many tools that can help you to do this. You can use the Word Wall, charts in theroom, what you already know about vowel patterns and chunks or you might even turnto books about your topic to help you spell words the best that you can.• Writers use punctuation as we write to give directions to our readers when our thoughtor action ends and when a new one begins. When we edit our writing we will want tolook at how we used punctuation to make sure that our thoughts and ideas are clear tothe reader. Today I want to teach you to read your work carefully—like adetective—thinking about what changes you need to make.◦ Tip: Remember that a sentence is a thought. At the end of that thought is aperiod. The next thought begins with a capital letter. As we reread our work weread on the hunt for parts that we want to edit—and we use punctuation in abetter and clearer way.Sample Minilesson ABy Lucy CalkinsConnectionWriters, you must be feeling so grown up. Do any of you remember the first time you ever cameto school and you weren’t sure where to go, or what to do? You were probably standing there,thinking, “Where do I go?” “What do I do?” It must feel so different this year, right? How manyof you, when you got off the bus, had to just stand there and ask, ‘What do I do?” “Where do Igo?” Well, right now we are starting our writing workshop and I have HUGE news to tell you.This is it. You already know what to do. And you don’t have to sit there and ask, “What do IUnit One – Launching with NonfictionReading and Writing Project, 2011 ©DRAFT
Writing Curricular Calendar, Second Grade, 2011-2012 13do?” You can get started on writing, just like you can figure out how to get off the bus, go to theplayground, line up, come into our rooms.Teaching PointAs second grade writers you already know what to do during workshop. You can remember backto first grade and kindergarten and use all that you know to help you come up with ideas forpieces of writing you want to make, to figure out what to do if you get stuck on a hard part orword, and how to revise your work when you are done. You don’t have to wait for a teacher totell you what to do—you can use all that you know.TeachingLet me remind you what you of something you already know. After our minilesson, it will betime for you to write, and I’ll say, “So Table one, you can get started. Table two, you can getstarted.” If I had said that to you when you were a kindergarten student, what would you havedone? Right now, pretend it’s three years ago and you are five, and it is the start of writingworkshop, and I’ve said, “You can get started on your work.” What would you have done?Thought? (I act out a 5 year old, startled, paralyzed, and invite the kids to join me.)But you aren’t in kindergarten, are you? You are in second grade. So when I tell you, “You canget started on your writing,” picture what you’ll do….Make a movie in your mind of yourselfdoing that.I wonder if some of you are picturing that you’ll look for the kind of paper you want to write on.I bet some of you are deciding on booklets with three pages, some on booklets with fivepages….Are any of you picturing that you’ll choose your paper? Are you? You aren’t just sittingthere frozen going, ‘Huh?’ You are getting yourself started? Great.And are any of you picturing yourself thinking, “Hmmm, what will I write about?” and decidingyou’ll remember true stuff you’ve done? Are you?…..Are ideas already coming to your mind,without a teacher telling you what ideas to have? You can think about stuff you are dying to tellpeople, right? And you can think about times you’ve had strong feelings.And…I know this is a long shot…but are any of you remembering that if you have a watermelonidea, like ‘the day at the beach,’ you can think about a small seed idea…. like ‘when a sea gullate half my hot dog.’So writers, do you see that just like you already know how to get off the bus and make your wayto the playground and to the classroom….you also already know how to write? And that meansthat from this day on, all this year long, you can get going on your writing, showing all that youknow how to do.Active InvolvementSo right now, will you picture what is going to happen when I say, “Table one, will you getstarted on your writing?” Picture what kind of paper you are going to take from the pile…pictureyourself thinking about a story you are going to write…Remember back to first grade to help youout. What are all the things that you are going to do in workshop today? Turn and tell yourUnit One – Launching with NonfictionReading and Writing Project, 2011 ©DRAFT
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