travel journals 4 th grade
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Travel Journals 4 th Grade. Heather Barnes Katie Waller ECED 4300 C Dr. Tonja Root. Prewriting & Drafting for Travel Journals. Prewriting & Drafting Georgia Performance Standards. GPS: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Travel Journals4th Grade
Heather BarnesKatie Waller
ECED 4300 CDr. Tonja Root
Prewriting & Drafting
forTravel Journals
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Prewriting & DraftingGeorgia Performance StandardsGPS:ELA4W1 The student produces writing that
establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure. The student
a. Selects a focus, an organizational structure, and a point of view based on
purpose, genre expectations, audience, length, and format requirements.
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Prewriting & DraftingPrimary Learning OutcomePLO:The students will be able to begin the writing
process by choosing a topic to focus on and begin to generate ideas and thoughts onto paper and will be able to write at an appropriate length for the Travel Journal.
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Form of WritingTravel Journals
Students will be taking turns taking home a bag which contains a variety items dealing with vacation and a journal. Such as:Travel BrochuresMapsPostcards
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Form of WritingTravel Journals
At home students will decide where they will visit on vacation, write a story about their vacation, and illustrate their story using art materials.
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Form of WritingTravel Journals
Students will return the bag with the journal the next day for another student to take home.
Entries from the journal will be shared with the whole once a week.
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Stage of WritingPrewriting and Drafting
The students will complete a blank graphic organizer, which will come with the journal.
The students will be able to organize their thought before putting their ideas in the journal.
The students will complete a draft of their journal.
Graphic Organizer
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Show and Explain ModelParish, Peggy (1985).
Amelia bedelia goes camping. HarperCollins Publishers.
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Show and Explain ModelThis example shows students possibilities
about what they can write about in their travel journals
The example is rather in depth but will open up the students eyes to the possibilities they can write about
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Published PieceAPA Citation
Moss, M. (1997). Amelia hits the road. Berkeley: Tricycle.
Link to Excerpt http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1562477900
/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
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Practice ActivityAs a class the students will decide on a
location as to where they would like to travel anywhere in the world.
The students will to fill out a Graphic Organizer as a class on the overhead projector
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Assessment ActivityEach student will be given a blank
Graphic Organizer to complete on their own.
The students will pick a dream location where they would like to travel, rather then the location they completed as a class.
Revising and Editingfor
Travel Journals
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Revising & EditingGeorgia Performance StandardsELA4W1 The student produces writing that
establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure. The student
b. Writes texts of a length appropriate to address the topic or tell the story.
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Revising & Editing Primary Learning OutcomeThe students will be able to write an
appropriate length text and once completed writing the student will re-read the story and make any corrections, additions, or deletions if needed to better their writing.
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Form of WritingTravel Journals
Students will be taking turns taking home a bag which contains a variety items dealing with vacation and a journal. Such as:Travel BrochuresMapsPostcards
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Form of WritingTravel Journals
At home students will decide where they will visit on vacation, write a story about their vacation, and illustrate their story using art materials.
Students will return the bag with the journal the next day for another student to take home.
Entries from the journal will be shared with the whole once a week.
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Stage of WritingRevising and Editing
Once the students have completed the prewriting and drafting stage, they will go back and re-read their story.
The students will make any additions, corrections, or deletions in order to better their story.
The student will write a final copy of their journal into the “Travel Journal”.
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Show and Explain ModelKeller, L (1998). The
scrambled states of america. New York, New York: Henry Holt and Company.
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Show and Explain ModelThe teacher will share this text with the
students. The teacher will explain to the students
that there are several places in the world to travel, even throughout the United States.
This will help the students to add information and detail into their writing.
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Published Piece
APA CitationBierman, C. (1998). Journey to Ellis Island. Tor
onto: Madison Press. Link to Excerpt
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/B0000AA9K7/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
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Practice ActivityThe teacher will present the students with
an example of a Travel Journal that contains errors and needs additions, corrections, and deletions, on the overhead.
As a group the students will make additions, corrections, and deletions in order to better the story.
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Assessment ActivityThe students will be given a short
example of a journal writing. On their own, the students will make additions, corrections, and deletions.
Once completed the students will share their ideas with the class.
The teacher will remind the students that there is not one right answer and there can be several ways to revise and edit.