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Lego Story Starter
Turn and Talk
What are some of the essential questions pertaining to writing instruction?
At your grade level, what are your students’ strengths in writing?
What challenges you when you teach writing?
What do you do to combat writer’s block?
Objective
Today we will investigate best practices in the use Lego Story Starter in order to design and deliver writing instruction which is student-centered, developmentally appropriate, and motivating.
Sample Activity
Why?
Lego Story Starter
As pre-writing within the context
of the writing process
Facilitates Organization
Paper product
Digital product
As a response to reading
Promotes deeper thinking
As a collaborative brainstorming activity in a content area
Makes ideas more concrete
1) What? – Narrative Writing
The Narrative Task broadens the way in which students may use this type of writing. Narrative writing can be used to convey experiences or events, real or imaginary. In this task, students may be asked to write a story, detail a scientific process, write a historical account of important figures, or to describe an account of events, scenes or objects.
When? Learn to Write by Writing
Craft (word choice, voice, ideas, organization)Conventions (text layout, grammar, capitalization,
punctuation, spelling, handwriting, word processing)Writing Process (rehearsing and planning; drafting and
revising; editing and proofreading; publishing; sketching and drawing; viewing self as a writer)
When? Instructional Activities
• Investigations: Use reading, writing, and multiple media resources including technology to explore and research topics in-depth. Provide explicit instruction to explore written language and make connections between reading and writing.
• Independent Writing: Mini-lesson followed by students engaged in writing during which teacher will confer with students about their writings.
• Guided/Small group Writing: homogeneous, small, temporary groups based on students’ interests and/or needs.
Getting Started
How? Experience a lesson from the guide
Setting the StageModelGuided practiceTime for collaborative workSummarize / Synthesize individuallyReflect
Curriculum Pack
How? Make up your own activity
EngageModelGuided practiceTime for collaborative workSummarize / Synthesize individuallyReflect
Story Stems
Extension 1: Writing About ReadingReading Response JournalAnalysis
The Literature Task
plays an important role in
honing students’ ability to
read complex text closely, a
skill that research reveals as the
most significant factor
differentiating college-ready
from non-college-ready readers.
This task will ask students to
carefully consider literature
worthy of close study and
compose an analytic essay
-PARCC
Reading Comprehension of Key Ideas and Details *Notes: The type of textual evidence required is grade and prompt specific and included in the scoring guide.
Score Point 3:The student response provides an accurate analysis of what the text says explicitly and inferentially and references the text explicitly to support the analysis, showing full comprehension of complex ideas expressed in the text(s).
Extension 2: Digital Publication
Final product can be a story, blog, poem, article, newsletter, brochure, photo story, movie, stop motion video, or webpage
Publication tools Site license of Visualizer software
Standard applications (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Wixie, Voicethread, Windows Movie Maker, Kidblog, Edmodo, Weebly)
Visualizer Tutorial