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 * Lesson Plan**
 * Title: Learning to brainstorm and write![[image:http://www.openclipart.org/image/800px/svg_to_png/klsgfx_Pencils.png width="297" height="186"]]**
 * Subject: Reading/Language arts**
 * Author: Sarah Evans**
 * Grade Level: 3rd grade level**
 * Overview: This lesson teaches students strategies and methods to write essays, stories, and other written materials.**
 * Objectives: Students should learn how to arrange information into written form so they can communicate their ideas persuasively. They will create a story successfully.**
 * Materials Needed: Journals, computers, books. The journals will be used by the students to help them practice prewriting. The computers will be used for research, creating a digital story, and books will be used as sources for the powerpoint.**
 * Activities and Procedures: Students will create a digital story about themselves or family members. Students will also create a powerpoint about a historical topic and then present it to the class. Last of all students will create an outline to interview one another and then write a paper about their fellow classmate.**
 * Assessment: Students must demonstrate the ability to complie information and then present it effectively to an audience.**
 * Standards: 1: Prewriting 2: drafting 3: revising**


 * Student activities:**

Monday: We will begin the day by visiting this website that has children's written works: "ocean memories" by Eden A Marish Roehr, age 9. This site is good for you children to visit and see what people your own age have written. [|ocean memories] Each of you will write a paragraph about what you learned from this poem. The next lesson we will be learning is how to write an outline. Visit this website to learn about [|outlines]. Each of you will write a mock outline in preparation for the prewriting of an essay tomorrow. This next website will help you to get ready for the essay. Follow this link to learn about [|what a paragraph is]. This next website has all sorts of ideas for writing topics and ideas for you to utilize for writing.[|enchanted learning] Tuesday: Today each of you will interview one other person and then will write an essay about them. Ask them questions like where they are from, what they like to eat, and how big is their family? Be very descriptive. This essay will be three paragraphs long and must include an ouline.

Wednesday: Today we will be taking the essay that was written yesterday and writing a rough draft of it. Take time to analyze what was written. This morning we will be putting together a three minute powerpoint together about a historical event. You may work within teams of three. You must influde 4 graphics within this presentation. You may use the books that are provided from this classroom as well as the internet. On friday you will present your power point presentation.
 * **Thursday:
 * **Today you will prepare for putting your digital story together tomorrow. download photo story to your computer. Follow this link to [|photo story]. Write one paper about yourself and then create four pictures that illustrate what you wrote. Scan your photos into the computer. Pick out some music to put with your story.
 * **Friday: Today you will compile what you prepared yesterday and put your digital story together. Afterwards you will present your three minute power point.

Teacher Resource Page [|Education World] This website gives ideas on how to make writing more creative and what to do to make it different. [|How to write an outline] This website provided a sample outline to illustrate how to write an outline [|Intstructor Web] This website has great ideas on how to teach a child how to write a paragraph. It teaches them what a paragraph is and gives them examples to learn from. [|Pro teacher directory] This website gives ideas on how to teach about similes, it shows how journaling can be a good tool for the classroom, and gives examples of graphic organizers. [|Stone Soup] This website can get students excited to write because it displays works of other students just like themselves! Poetry, Essays, and stories are all included. [|Teach your child to write] This website gives practical suggestions on how to get your child active in writing. It covers ideas for the different grade levels. This website also has activities that chidlren can do. [|technology-Rich learning experiences for third graders] This website shows a list of technology resources that can be used for a third grader in the classroom. There are things like magnetic poetry, games that teach science, and other links that teach children new things.

[|Writing activities] This website has assignments that children can do; such as, write a sentence for each work, or write ten things about a topic.
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