Week #
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Form of Writing
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Prompt & Writing Activity/Strategy
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Topics for Grammar/Revising/Editing
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Week 1
August 27
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Baseline Writing through Journaling: Expository/Narrative
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Prompt:
Daily Journal Prompt (see IFD)
Activity/Strategy:
Respond to daily prompts
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Texas Assessment Preparation Pretest pages
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Week 2
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Expository-Informative
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Prompt: Describe your favorite game and explain why it is fun.
Describe tu juego favorito y explica porque es divertido.
Activity/Strategy:
Expository Informative Brainstorming (pg. 36 – Randi Whitney)
Linear Paragraph (pg. 23 – Randi Whitney)
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Week 3
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Prompt: Describe your favorite game and explain why it is fun.
Describe tu juego favorito y explica porque es divertido.
Activity/Strategy:
Use Linear Paragraph handout (from week 2) to create rough draft, Revising, and Editing
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Week 4
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Prompt: Describe your favorite game and explain why it is fun.
Describe tu juego favorito y explica porque es divertido.
Activity/Strategy:
Final draft/Publish
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Week 5
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Personal Narrative
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Prompt: Write about an event that changed your life.
Activity/Strategy: Brainstorming, Magnifying,( Randi Whitney) Lesson 4
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Common Nouns
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Proper Nouns
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Ideas
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Week 6
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Prompt: Write about an event that changed your life.
Activity/Strategy: Drafting using Storyline (Randi Whitney) pg. 43-47
1 Page Foldable
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Plural Nouns with s & e
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Ideas
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Week 7
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Prompt: Write about an event that changed your life.
Activity/Strategy: Revise and edit-(Randi Academy) Lesson 6, Publish.
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Verbs
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Revising for Word Choice
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Week 8
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Expository-How to/Procedural
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Prompt: Explain how to ride a bike.
Explica como andar en bicicleta.
Activity/Strategy:
Introductions/Conclusions folder
Introductions pg. 28/38 – (Randi Whitney)
Let’s Get Organized – pg. 43 w/”I” Activity
Prewrite/Brainstorm, Rough Draft
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Week 9
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Prompt: Explain how to ride a bike.
Explica como andar en bicicleta.
Activity/Strategy:
Rough Draft/Conferencing with students
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Week 10
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Prompt: Explain how to ride a bike.
Explica como andar en bicicleta.
Activity/Strategy:
Rough Draft, Final Draft/Publish
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Week 11
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Personal Narrative
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Prompt: Write about a time you were successful at something.
Activity/Strategy: Brainstorming, Drafting using storyline /focus on Starring pg. 18-26 (Randi Whitney)
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Simple Subjects
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Simple Predicates
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Organization
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Week 12
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Prompt: Write about a time you were successful at something.
Activity/Strategy: Continue Starring Activities; Drafting 1 page Foldable
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Week 13
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Prompt: Write about a time you were successful at something.
Activity/Strategy: Continue Starring Activities, Revising for organization, Edit for complete sentences, Publish.
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Plural Nouns
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Revise for Organization
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Week 14
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Expository-How to (Masked)
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Prompt: Explain how to make a friend.
Explica como tener un amigo.
Activity/Strategy: Use Randi Whitney Concentration Game pages 51-53. Refer to page 32 for Development of Strategies.
Prewrite/Brainstorm, Rough draft
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Week 15
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Prompt: Explain how to make a friend.
Explica como tener un amigo.
Activity/Strategy: Rough Draft, Revise, Edit
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Week 16
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Prompt: Explain how to make a friend.
Explica como tener un amigo.
Activity/Strategy: Final Draft, Publish
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Week 17
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Personal Narrative
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Prompt: Think of a time you were nervous. Tell what happened and how you reacted.
Activity/Strategy: Brainstorming, Drafting use Randi Whitney Spinning Voice pg. 64-73
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Forming the Past Tense
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Voice
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Week 18
Benchmark
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Prompt: Think of a time you were nervous. Tell what happened and how you reacted.
Activity/Strategy: Use Lesson 15 for models of revision
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Week 19
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Prompt: Think of a time you were nervous. Tell what happened and how you reacted.
Activity/Strategy: Conferencing for voice
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Adjectives
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Edit for good descriptive words and voice(emotion)
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Week 20
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Expository-Compare/Contrast
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Prompt: Compare and contrast watching a movie to reading a book.
Activity/Strategy: Brainstorm/Venn Diagram /Rough Draft
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Week 21
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Prompt: : Compare and contrast watching a movie to reading a book
Activity/Strategy: Rough Draft/Revise/Edit
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Using the verb be and helping verbs
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Week 22
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Prompt: : Compare and contrast watching a movie to reading a book
Activity/Strategy: Revise/Edit/Publish Final Draft
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Week 23
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Narrative
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Prompt: Write about a time you did something just for the fun of it.
Activity/Strategy: Brainstorming, Use Randi Whitney Telescoping-focus ideas, Drafting
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Contractions
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Organization
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Week 24
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Prompt: Write about a time you did something just for the fun of it.
Activity/Strategy: Use Lesson 21 What makes a great narrative paragraph?
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Possessive Nouns
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Organizations and Ideas
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Week 25
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Prompt: Write about a time you did something just for the fun of it.
Activity/Strategy: Use Lesson 22 to model editing and conferencing for details
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Proper Nouns
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Edit for Word Choice(sensory details)
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Week 26
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Expository-Informative
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Prompt: Choose the school subject you think is the most important and explain why.
Activity/Strategy: The Writing Process w/Linear Paragraph (1-2)
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Week 27
Benchmark Week
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Prompt: Choose the school subject you think is the most important and explain why.
Activity/Strategy: Rough draft/conferencing/final draft
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Week 28
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Expository-How to/Procedural
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Prompt: Explain what your morning routine is before you get to school.
Activity/Strategy: Brainstorm, Rough Draft
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Week 29
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Prompt: Explain what your morning routine is before you get to school.
Activity/Strategy: Rough Draft, Conferencing, Final Draft
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Week 30
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Journeys Lesson 26
Writing to Inform: Compare/Contrast
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Prompt: Write paragraphs comparing and contrasting two people you can admire.
Activity/Strategy: Writing Process with Venn Diagram
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Week 31
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STAAR Reading/Math
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Week 32
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Journeys Lesson 27
Write to Inform: Problem/Solution
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Prompt: Write a paragraph describing a problem that our ability to use electricity has helped to solve.
Activity/Strategy: TE page 85 The Writing Process
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Week 33
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Journeys Lesson 28
Write to Inform: Instructions
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Prompt: Write a paragraph analyzing how to do an activity you enjoy.
Activity/Strategy: TE page 129 –The Writing Process
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Week 34
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Journeys Lesson 29
Research Report: Prewrite and Draft
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Prompt: Write a research paper about a game or sport that interests you.
Activity/Strategy: TE page 176 Prewrite and Draft
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Week 35
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Journeys Lesson 30
Research Report: Draft, Revise, Edit, and Publish
*Fountas & Pinnell Assessment
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Prompt: Write a research paper about a game or sport that interests you.
Activity/Strategy: Draft, Revise, Edit
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Week 36
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Prompt: Write a research paper about a game or sport that interests you.
Activity/Strategy: Publish Final Draft
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