Writing

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Writing

• Descriptive Writing
• Seashells
• Grade 1

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Objective

• Today we will observe a seashell and write a
  descriptive paragraph.

cfu-What is our objective?
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Connection to Prior Learning

• What other topics have we described this year?
• seasons
• food
• gifts

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How can we describe things?

• We can use our senses.
• Our sense are
• sight
• sound
• touch
• smell
• taste

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A Famous Description of a Seashell

• Listen How many examples do you hear of her
  words painting a picture?

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A Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow
Lindberg(paraphrased)
This is a snail shell,round, full and glossy as a
horse chestnut. Comfortable and compact, it sits
curled in the hollow of my hand. Milky and
opaque, it has the pinkish bloom of the sky on a
summer evening, ripening to the rain. On its
smooth symmetrical face is penciled with
precision a smooth spiral, winding inward to the
pinpoint center of the shell. Now it is as the
moon,solitary in the sky, Now it is an island set
in an ever widening circle of waves. It is alone,
self-contained, and serene.
Point to the features of your shell as you
describe it. CFU talk to your partner/ / share
examples of a picture being painted with words in
this poem.
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PrewritingSketch Your Shell
Pass out shells
Share results
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Word Bank

• In instructional writing it is appropriate to use
  a dictionary, thesaurus, or personal word list to
  devise a word bank of nouns, adjectives, and
  verbs.
• These may be listed on the board as they are
  generated and then used orally to describe the
  shell.

Working with ELLs
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The Five Senses- Ask Yourself

• See- What do you see?
• Feel- What does it feel like?
• Sound- Can you hear the sea?
• Taste- What do you imagine it would taste like?
• Smell- What do you smell?

TPR
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Organizing Observations

• Shell
• R F D( reasons, facts, details)
• pink and /purple rim
• Opening like a cave
• Sound of the sea
• Edge is scalloped
• Pointy top

• Curled in my hand sits a small shell.
• MORE- example,elaborate,evidence
• like a sunrise
• swirls open
• wind and waves crashing
• candy dish
• like a drill

List the yellows first then add the
reds. Practice orally different ways of
starting/saying the sentence. Try a think/pair
/share
model
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Draft Edit Revise
1. Draft your details. 2.Read each sentence to
your partner. 3.Point to each word as you
read. 4. Underline the first letter of each
sentence and each end mark. 5. Correct spelling,
grammar, and revise awkward sentences.
model

• The side of the shell opens like a cave.
• The colors are pink and brown. It makes me think
  of sunrise.
• When I put the shell next to my ear, I hear the
  whooshing sound of the wind and sea.
• Around the edge I feel a texture that is as rough
  as sandpaper.
• The pointy top is shaped like a drill.

To be done sentence by sentence
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Concluding Sentence

• What does it do? It restates the main idea of
  your paragraph. It does not add new information.
• How do I write one?
• 1. Restate the main idea of the paragraph using
  different words.
• This small shell in my hand is a true gift
  from the sea.
• 2. Ask a question
• What could be better than a gift from the sea?
• 3. Bring the description to an end.
• Gently, I carefully return the shell to the sea.

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Publish

• Seashell
• Curled in my hand is a small shell. The
  side of the shell opens like a cave. The colors
  are pink and brown like an early morning sunrise.
  Next to my ear, I hear the whooshing sound of the
  wind and sea. Around the edge, I feel a texture
  that is as rough as sandpaper. The pointy top is
  shaped like a drill. Gently, I carefully return
  the shell to the sea.

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Share

• Lets hear what you wrote!