Articulation Day Sharing Lorraine Quinn Bellows Spring Elementary School

Common Core Writing Artifact that demonstrates how I have incorporated the Common Core writing into my instruction this school year.

Process Collaboration with 2 nd Grade Team How can I best support their efforts to improve students’ writing skills? Design lesson that supports the English Language Arts Standards. Used a combination of brainstorming, Kidspiration, Comic Life, and read alouds.

Common Core Focus Text Types and Purposes 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.

Teacher Discussion Improve Student Writing Organization Sequencing Events (beginning, middle, and end) Adding details (adjectives) to “boring” sentences Connecting ideas with: and, but, or, first, second, and last Goal to improve paragraph writing skills

Lesson Idea: Writing Students will write about an event that was personally important to them such as a birthday, spring break, vacation, learning a new skill, or participating in something new. Brainstormed ideas with class to come up with a variety of ideas…what will work, what will not. Used Kidspiration template to plan story.

Kidspiration Template Great way to help students create an outline. Make decisions early to plan sequence of events. Students used their completed document as a resource for final product.

Students Love to Share their Stories!

Final Product Comic Life that describes an exciting event in their lives. Make sure to include a beginning, middle, and end with details. Use transition words such as first, next, soon, later, afterwards, before, finally, then, at last

Reflections Collaboration with my teams has been a very successful way to implement the curriculum. Collaborative planning to incorporate the writing standards is a work in progress. Goals include a focus on improving writing paragraphs.

Reflections Students enjoyed reading stories aloud. Students also learned how to use clip art and take a screen shot. First steps for implementing writing standards.

Done! Any questions?