Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 language arts, writing, ELL, EL, ESL, creativity, creative, mentor, pre-writing xml Lourdes Ruiz-Arthur 19.05.06: We as Writers: Creating a Creative Writers Community English language arts writing ELL EL ESL creativity creative mentor pre-writing Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 2020-10-27T12:11:53-04:00 2020-10-27T12:11:53-04:00 uuid:1A92A6BF-B574-4FA3-A041-A9F738DB87AD uuid:cef08d23-b64f-495a-a6a1-a7028b7f43c0

Curriculum Unit

We as Writers: Creating a Creative Writers Community WriteCommunityWritingCommunity

Lourdes Ruiz-Arthur

Title Author

This unit, We as Writers: Creating a Creative Writers Community, is designed to provide practical pre-writing activities including mentor texts that will help young writers write a variety of writing pieces and will chose their best writing piece to be included in a class book.

KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT

  •  Why is writing about ourselves and others important?
  •  How can we make writing time fun and creative?
  •  What makes us good writers?
  •  How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing and responding?
  •  How do the other arts, disciplines, contexts and daily life inform creating, performing and responding to music?

    • CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C

    Pre-writing Activities

    Sharing our work with others

    Writing is thinking and sharing

    ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C

    What is writing?

    How do writers start to write?

    How can we share our writing with others?

    VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY B VOCABULARY C

    Communication

    Small moments

    Authors

    Creativity

    Publishing

    Audience

    Feedbak

    Mentor texts

    Heart map

    Realia

    Self-portrait

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES

    Calkins, Lucy McCormick, 1986. The Art of Teaching Writing,Portsmouth, NH:Heinemann

    Culham, Ruth,2014. The Writing Thief,.Portland, MA: Stenhouse Publishers:International Literacy Association

    Dorfman, Lynne R. & Cappelli , Rose, 2017.Mentor Texts.2nd edition:Teaching Writing Through Children’s Literature,K-6.Portland,MA:Stenhouse Publishers