2nd Grade Writing Unit 01 Launching with Nonfiction - The Reading ...

Writing Curricular Calendar, Second Grade, 2011-2012 16Did you see how I sketched quickly and then I got right to my writing? I kept my mind thinkingand pen moving? I kept thinking, “What else, what else?”Active InvolvementWriters, lets’ try this all together in our class All-About Book about School. Let’s work on thechapter, “Time for Food,” about the cafeteria. Let’s try to keep the pen moving and our mindsthinking! Are you ready? Turn and tell your partner not just one thing but many things we caninclude on this page. Let’s get a paragraph!(You may want to voice over tips to help kids think such as: “Look up at the picture,” “Thinkabout what else you could say,” “Think about what else happens...”)LinkWriters, each day when you write, remember that now you are ready to write longer stories,letters, and chapters in your All-about books or in your stories. You can do that by thinkingabout spending most of your time writing. When you go off to write today remember, lets’ writelong and strong! Keep your pens moving and your minds thinking! When you are done with onepage remember, before you turn the page, look at it and say, “What else can I say here? Do Ihave a paragraph?”Mid-Workshop Teaching PointWriters, can I stop you for a minute? You must see Beth’s writing! (Hold up a page or two witha good bit of writing.) So cool! She has spent almost all her time writing. When we looked ather piece together Beth told me that she was trying to add more to the page. She added more bythinking about what her dad was saying and also what she was saying and doing. Let me readjust this one page that she added 5 sentences to. (Read the student work.) Not only does she saymore, but as a reader I can see more! I really see Beth and her dad at the picnic together! Ok, getback to it, writers. You have about 15 more minutes to get more thoughts on your paper.Remember, when you add more to your writing it helps the reader see and understand more.Sample Minilesson CBy Lucy CalkinsConnectionWriters, do you realize we have only been in school for a few days? I think that if we made a listof all the stuff you do as writers, it would be taller than most of you!You might select a student to dramatize just how long this list will be. Turn that way, Marco,we’ll make our list alongside your back. Let’s see, hmmm. (I reach down to the back of Marco’sshoes and start making my hands crawl up his backside, as if we were singing the itsy-bitsyspider song and the spider was climbing up the water spout. I make a large hand-size step up foreach new item as my goal is to reach his head.) We learned…· that writers can think, “What are the cool things I’ve done that I’m dying to tell peopleUnit One – Launching with NonfictionReading and Writing Project, 2011 ©DRAFT