Green 1 Interdisciplinary Unit 2 Correspondence Writing Leigh J Green READ 7140A Summer 2005 Dr Root Green 2 Pre Post Assessment for Correspondence Unit 2 Pre Before the unit the students will choose one of the three quotes below Using the prompt the student will be asked to write a letter that is at least page in length Post After the unit the student will choose a different prompt and complete a second letter Again the letter must be at least page in length Both the pre and post assessment will be scored using the rubric for publishing from this unit Prompt 1 Write a letter to a friend or family member and share with them what you have been learning in school You might include a description of your favorite subject what skills you are learning in your connections class or how you prepare for special assignments Prompt 2 Write a letter to your principal to share ideas on how you think your school day could be improved You might ask for a longer break time the privilege to choose your own schedule or even to lengthen or shorten the school day Prompt 3 Write a letter to a friend or family member describing your favorite thing to during your free time at home Do you like to play video games play outside with friends or maybe read a book Green 3 Interdisciplinary Writing Unit Lesson Plan Guide Grade Level 6 Content Area Language Arts Mode of Writing correspondence Stage of writing Pre Assessment Unit 2 Lesson 1 GPS ELA6W1 a The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure sets a context and engages the reader maintains a coherent focus throughout and provides a satisfying closure the student selects a focus organizational structure and a point of view based on purpose genre expectations audience length and format requirements ELA6W1 a The student produces technical writing friendly letters thank you notes formula poems that creates or follows an organizing structure appropriate to purpose audience and context Student Materials Pre Assessment prompts Paper Pencil Teacher Materials Pre Assessment prompts overhead Modifications FOR EACH LESSON IN UNIT 2 Visual Impairments Student will be seated in front row will receive enlarged print copy of materials extended time allowed to use word processor if needed modified rubric Hearing Impairments Student will be seated in front row teacher will wear microphone if necessary SST IEP Students will receive teacher notes if needed extended time modified rubric reduced assignments ESOL Student will work with resource teacher and or other bilingual student use translation software extended time reduced assignments modified rubric Green 4 Instruction Mode of Writing Instruction Today we are going to begin our next unit we are going to learn how to write a letter How many of you have ever written a letter to a friend family member or maybe even a pen pal students answers will vary Good some of you have written letters before You are going to use what you already know and combine that with some new information and then you are going to get to write a letter to our President of the United States I know you are going to love this unit because you will be able to use the computers almost everyday this week Before we get started learning new information I want us to take pre assessment to see how much we already know After we are finished with the unit we will take another assessment called a post assessment and compare the two to see how much progress you have made Modeling Practice In order to be sure of getting a true measurement of student knowledge teacher will not model or give practice before during the pre assessment Assessment Activity Now I would like for you to get out one piece of paper and your pencil Okay now turn your attention to the paper that student is handing out and notice that the same information is on the overhead Teacher will begin to explain prompts referring to overhead These are the choices you will have to write from for your pre assessment You can write any one letter of your choice Lets look at Prompt 1 Raise your hand and read this prompt aloud for the class student will read prompt Are there any prompts about what the prompt is asking you to do students no Teacher will re iterate instructions if needed but will not teach material Teacher will continue having a volunteer to read prompts and answer questions if necessary Interdisciplinary Writing Unit Lesson Plan Guide Grade Level 6 Content Area Language Arts Mode of Writing correspondence Stage of writing WebQuest Task 1 Unit 2 Lesson 2 The student will define and identify the five parts of a friendly letter GPS ELA6W1 a The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure sets a context and engages the reader maintains a coherent focus throughout and provides a satisfying closure the student selects a focus organizational structure and a point of view based on purpose genre expectations audience length and format requirements ELA6W1 a The student produces technical writing friendly letters thank you notes formula poems that creates or follows an organizing structure appropriate to purpose audience and context ELA6W3 a The student uses research and technology to support writing the student Uses organizational features of electronic text to locate relevant information Student Materials Computer with Internet access computer lab if possible File folder labeled with student name Pencil paper Webquest site http www rblewis net technology EDU506 WebQuests 3letters 3letters html Teacher Materials Teacher station computer with Internet access if teacher station does have projector will need printout of PowerPoint on WebQuest to use as teaching material Green 6 Instruction Mode of Writing Instruction Today students we are going to begin learning how to write a letter I m sure many of you have written letters before but like many other areas in Language Arts we are going to learn the correct and technical way to write a letter Technical simply means that we are going to learn a correct form and process for letter writing We are going to learn to write a friendly letter Raise you hand and tell me some examples of who you might write a friendly letter to students a friend family member a pen pal Good all of those are ways to use correspondence which is what letter writing is Who can raise your hand and tell me another more modern way to correspond or keep in touch with people student computers and email Very good