Instructional Writing for 2nd Graders
This webcast is designed to help front-load the understanding of how things work, the steps in making those things work and how to figure it out. This is a shared process to give students an opportunity to evaluate different processes so they can transfer this new information into their own Instructional Writing.
Students will cooperatively follow this webcast and develop an outline and steps with teacher guidance in Task 1. Then cooperatively develop an outline and steps with a partner of one item in Task 2. Then students will share their learnings to the class in Task 3 and 4 and evaluate each other.
Standards include:
Relative Advantage of using this Webquest:
1. Using a computer for teacher and students
2. Navigating the internet
3. Working with Internet resources/Google Apps
4. Copying a google doc into their own google drive, sharing it with peers, adding and collecting data to enter into the doc
5. Synthesizing information to share what they learned
6. Collaborating with peers in a group project
7. Deeply understanding how to construct instructional writing from this experience so they can write their own on their choice of topic using transistional words
and descriptive language
Timeline: This process encompasses 5 - 7 (30 minute) instructional lessons.
Materials/Resouces: Devices (Chromebooks, iPads, computers), Google Apps for Education (or paper copies of resouces linked at the end), YouTube Accessibility
Grouping Strategies:
Students will work in groups, made up of 2-3 people. Within those groups they will pick a role of the Investigator or Records Manager. They will need access to one device per group.
Learning Activities:
Assessment/Evaluation:
Adaptations for Learners with Special Needs: The only modifications that may need to be addressed are making sure that all students are able to contribute to the documentation of their outline. This may be done verbally or through a talker.
This webcast is designed to help front-load the understanding of how things work, the steps in making those things work and how to figure it out. This is a shared process to give students an opportunity to evaluate different processes so they can transfer this new information into their own Instructional Writing.
Students will cooperatively follow this webcast and develop an outline and steps with teacher guidance in Task 1. Then cooperatively develop an outline and steps with a partner of one item in Task 2. Then students will share their learnings to the class in Task 3 and 4 and evaluate each other.
Standards include:
- Standard: 3. Writing and Composition. Content Area: Reading, Writing and Communicating - Grade 2.
- Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure. (CCSS: W.2.3)
- Organize ideas using pictures, graphic organizers, or story maps or bulleted lists
- Write with precise nouns, active verbs, and descriptive adjectives
- Write letters and "how-to's" (procedures, directions, recipes) that follow a logical order and appropriate format
Relative Advantage of using this Webquest:
1. Using a computer for teacher and students
2. Navigating the internet
3. Working with Internet resources/Google Apps
4. Copying a google doc into their own google drive, sharing it with peers, adding and collecting data to enter into the doc
5. Synthesizing information to share what they learned
6. Collaborating with peers in a group project
7. Deeply understanding how to construct instructional writing from this experience so they can write their own on their choice of topic using transistional words
and descriptive language
Timeline: This process encompasses 5 - 7 (30 minute) instructional lessons.
Materials/Resouces: Devices (Chromebooks, iPads, computers), Google Apps for Education (or paper copies of resouces linked at the end), YouTube Accessibility
- Webquest
- Tie Your Shoes Really Fast Video
- Google Doc for Outline
- Task Card Description
- Primary Grade Self-Evaluation Teamwork Rubric
- Making a bed (corrected link) - Task 2
Grouping Strategies:
Students will work in groups, made up of 2-3 people. Within those groups they will pick a role of the Investigator or Records Manager. They will need access to one device per group.
Learning Activities:
- The groups challenge is to identify all the steps in the outline that they watch on the video of how things work.
- Students will summarize the processes of the video in the form of a presentation to the class.
- Students will collaborate, each contributing information based on their understanding of what is seen and their own background knowledge.
- They will gain knowledge in the process of a "how to video" after completing each step within this webquest.
- Additional Practice interactive game
Assessment/Evaluation:
- Student Participation in Group Work - Students will view the following Teamwork Rubric and decide where they would place themselves on the rubric. They will share this will their teammates. Teammates are encouraged to ask questions for validity of each evaluation. Being positive and honest is modeled and expected.
- Content of Outline - Teacher will evaluate the content of each team's outline. Teacher will give immediate feedback on google doc in comment section.
- Presentation of Learning - Students will get immediate feedback from peers in class for their presentation: Could you hear the presenters? Did this presentation make sense? Was the outline helpful before the video?
Adaptations for Learners with Special Needs: The only modifications that may need to be addressed are making sure that all students are able to contribute to the documentation of their outline. This may be done verbally or through a talker.
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