We do this by reading mentor texts and making charts about what we notice the author does well. I spend the first two weeks of my pacing explicitly teaching the aspects of the genre we are studying and writer’s craft as it relates to the genre we are studying. Now, let’s take a closer look at what each of those 9 weeks would look like: Two Weeks Explicitly Teaching Genre I teach the writing genres in this order: personal narrative, fictional narrative, persuasive, how-to informational, compare and contrast, descriptive/explanatory informational. I spend approximately 9 weeks on each main genre of writing (narrative, persuasive, and informational/expository). In this post, I want to share how I teach writing in 5th grade (very applicable to 3rd and 4th grade as well).
Though my instruction is still not perfect (is anything in teaching ever perfect?), I feel much more confident that I am growing my students as writers and helping them to love writing. I am super purposeful and everything I do now has a reason behind it. I honestly feel like I should write a formal apology to my first group of students.įast forward a few years and a grade level change, and I finally feel like I have a handle on teaching writing. I “did” all the right things but I didn’t do them very purposefully or effectively. But mostly, we just aimlessly read read alouds, wrote to prompts, and shared our writing. I remember teaching it and having some fun lessons that I am sure helped the students a little.
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My students (3rd graders at the time) were not assessed on writing, and I really didn’t know how to teach writing at that point in my career (especially since my students seriously struggled with all things literacy when they came to me). During my first year teaching I did a terrible, horrible, rotten job at teaching writing.
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