Welcome back! Sages will be kicking off the new year by learning about text patterns (or structures) in non-fiction. The objective of these lessons is to provide a framework through which students can comprehend non-fiction text. The various text patterns we will be working with are: analysis (main idea and supporting details), sequence, list, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, explanation, and definition. As part of our study, students will identify text patterns in authentic material and write using specific text patterns.
Some Sages have been writing in response to prompts from the Young Writers' Project. If you would especially like your child to be writing and s/he's not, let me know, please. All Sages will be participating in Vermont Writes Day on January 27th. Here is the blurb from YWP. I'd like to encourage parents to participate also. You may want to find out which prompt your child is planning to write about and write about the same one. These short pieces will make for great sharing around the dinner table or for before bedtime talks. FYI, I'm not going to tell the kids the prompts until the day before so that some of the more prolific writers don't get too much of a jump start. I am going to encourage them to only think about what they'd like to write and not actually write anything until we do it as a class. So please wait until the 26th to talk about it at home. Thanks.
The Young Writers Project is sponsoring Vermont Writes Day January 27, 2009 on which students, schools, guests, authors, politicians and anyone else who cares to participate will take seven minutes out of their day and write.
We have three suggested prompts to stimulate the writing:
"Dear President Obama ..."
"I am really good at ..."
"Listen."
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