Concert performances, assessments, exams, oh my!
We’ve been so busy wrapping up the last couple of weeks before break that I
haven’t had a chance to post any updates. My apologiesL
Anyway, this week we’ve been doing procedural
writing in Language Arts. I love teaching procedural writing (especially right
after information reports) because there’s so much fun stuff you can do with
it. Last week one of my students had a birthday so I thought this would be the
perfect introduction to procedural writing- how to make a birthday cake!
We started with a quick brainstorming session as
a group to review what we knew about procedural writing including purpose,
examples, and organization. Here’s the list we came up with:
Then we watched a short cooking video about
making a cake and took notes on what steps to take. We compared notes as a
class and then edited and simplified our directions. Finally, we baked a cake
of our own to celebrate a classmate’s birthday! It was a lot of fun, and the
students were completely engaged- always a plus. Here are a couple of pictures
from our cake baking session. Stay tuned for a couple more extension lessons
with procedural writing.
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