Johannah Murdock

Writing Lesson

Date:
November 14th, 2017

Daily Objective:
Students will be able to review their own writing by using a rubric to strengthen their
writing.

Mini-Lesson Focus: How to use a rubric to review your own writing.

Mentor Text:
I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman Orloff

Instruction:
Read example piece.
I do: Model how I read my writing, look over the rubric, underline areas that support
which item I am checking on the rubric. Use the bad example first. Have students turn
and talk to share with a partner the transition words they see. Give students 20 seconds
to count how many interesting words they see in a paragraph then whisper to a friend
how many they found.
We do: Do example sentences together on second example piece. Use the better
example. (high light before lesson the transition words in one color, the interesting
words in a second color, persuasive words in a third color, and voice in a fourth color).
Show students all the examples of interesting words, voice, transition words, and
persuasive words. Model how to check the boxes for those categories.
I do: Go back and circle each box on the rubric that had the most marks.
You do: Have them review their own writing for 20 minutes with a rubric.
You do: students who finish early will be directed to grab a red pen and make
corrections to their writing where the rubric shows they can improve.

Plan for Conferring: Meet with SU and SS individually

Assessment:
Collect students’ drafts and take anecdotal notes on students’ opinion and sentences
supporting that opinion, and their rubric. Code for proficient (check plus), needs some
support (check), needs lesson retaught (check minus). Data is kept on classlist on
teacher’s clipboard.
 Johannah Murdock

Materials:
I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman Orloff
Writer’s Notebooks
Pencils
Example piece
Document camera