xml Cindel M Berlin 19.05.04: Writing a Narrative: Learning to Write About an Experience English writing narrative special education ELL EL ESL Small group whole group Microsoft Word 2020-10-22T19:36:35Z 2020-10-22T19:36:35Z uuid:581EE461-D853-4777-ADF6-78C64BE5E24F uuid:5162467c-0bc9-46f7-9329-f7fa85deff31 writing, narrative, special education, ELL, EL, ESL,Small group, whole group

Curriculum Unit

Writing a Narrative: Learning to Write About an Experience

Cindel Berlin

Title Author

KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.

This unit, Writing a Narrative: Learning to Write About an Experience relates narrative writing and a trip to the zoo for first graders. I want my students to learn how write complete sentences, while learning how to write a narrative. In this seminar, I am looking to learn ways to build confidence in my 1st graders in their ability to write and tell their own experience in their own words through writing.

In this unit, Going to the Zoo and Life at the Zoo, students will discuss and learn the difference between a narrative text (non-fiction) and an entertaining text (fiction), and how it relates to the different types of writing. We will focus on the narrative writing component and how it relates to our writing about our trip to the zoo. These texts will help frontload information for students who have never been to the zoo.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT

  • • What is narrative writing?
  • • How do you write a complete sentence?
  • • How can you write about an experience that you had?
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    • CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C

    Writing a complete sentence

    Connecting an event with writing

    Narrative Writing

    ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C

    How can you write about an experience that you had?

    How do you write a complete sentence?

    What is narrative writing?

    VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY B VOCABULARY C

    Experience Introduction Conclusion

    Event Setting Character(‘s)

    Narrative Writing

    Narrative Text

    Writing

    Complete Sentence Grammar Punctuation

    Sentence structure

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES

    Dramatic Structure: Nettl, Bruno. Folk Traditional Music of the Western Continents. Prentice Hall, 1990.

    Wallace, Melanie. Social Studies: All Day, Every day in the Early Childhood Classroom. Thomson Delmar Learning.

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    Improvisation: Lomax, John A. and Alan Lomas. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads 16. Print, 1966.

    Higgins, Kathleen Marie. The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language? The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

    Listening: Anupartha. Drumming Folk Music From India. You Tube. 2008.

    Lomax, Alan. The Folk Songs of North America. Dolphin Books, 1975.

    “God Bless the U.S.A.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HL8_UtKe6w

    “Dancin’ in the Streets” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQpbURSFaNU