Lesson Plan

Grade 2 /3 Subject: Language Arts

Topic: Writers Workshop Date: November 1,2018 Length of Lesson: 60 minutes
General Learning General Outcome 1
Outcomes
(P.O.S.) Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to explore thoughts, ideas,
feelings and experiences.
Specific Leaning 1.1 Discover and Explore
Outcomes
(P.O.S.) Express ideas and develop understanding

 contribute relevant ideas and information from personal experiences to group

language activities
 talk about how new ideas and information have changed previous
understanding

Experiment with language and forms

 use a variety of forms of oral, print and other media texts to organize and give
meaning to experiences, ideas and information

Learning Students will know how to summarize their story to write a back of the book blurb
Objectives

Materials One back of the book blurb paper

“Night of the Veggie Monster”
Stapler
Procedure Have students folders set on the carpet and have students sit on Assessment
their folders when they come in. Methods
Introduction 1. Students meet at the meeting place.
(10 Min.) 2. I have noticed that you have all been working very hard
to get your stories ready to publish and most of you are
ready to publish your stories.
3. There is just one last thing we need to add on the back Formal: can students
of our stories that other mentor texts have. identify what they
4. Let’s take a look at some other published books to help are missing from
us know what we are missing from the back of our their stories by
books. looking at the
5. Hold up “Night of the Veggie Monster” and look at the mentor text
back.
6. Read the back of the book
7. What did George McClements do on the back of his
book? ( he wrote a back of the book blurb)
8. Why do you think George did this? ( to grab the readers
interest and tell the reader what their book was about)
9. Authors do this so that the reader can decide if this is a
book they want to read or not. He didn’t write
everything about the story he just gave a little hint about
what the story is about.
10. Re-read the back of George McClements book. Hmm
that sounds like an interesting story to me! I think I want
to read it.
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11. Now you need to think about what you want to write on your • Formal: Can
back of the book blurb. students summarize
12. Take out your story you want to publish from your folder their story to write a
and then sit on your folder again. Then I want you to read your back of the book
story and think about what back of the book blurb you want to blurb
write about.
13. I want to see a lot of thinkers thinking about what hints they
can write about on the back of the book blurt.
14. Put their story away in the folders and sit on it again
15. Ask students to share what they have thought they will write
on their back of the book blurb.
16. Show students the paper they are going to use to write on the
back of the book blurb. When you are all done you can staple it
to the back of your story. Show students how to staple it, only 2
staples.
17. Ask students what they are going to be working on today in
writers workshop. ( back of the book blurbs)
18. What are you going to do when you are all done your blurb?
( staple it and add pictures)
19. dismiss pod collectors, students to get offices.
20. ring the chimes, remind about expectations, set timer (20
minutes)
21. writing time
Closure ( 15 22. ring the chimes, hands on head
min.) 23. students clean up and meet at the meeting place. Formal: did students
24. Matthew and Tommy share back of the book blurbs write a back of the
under the document camera. ( students can guess what book blurb that is a
their story is about from reading the back of the book summary of their
blurb when the story is over ask students if their guess story?
was right, based on the back of the book blurb. Also ask
if there was spaces and all the word wall words are Formal: Did
correct) Matthew and
25. dismiss for recess. Tommy have spaces
between their words
and spell all the
word wall words
correctly?
Sponge Activity •
Look at more students’ stories under the document camera
Students add colour to their pictures and add pictures to their
back of the book blurb

Reflection:

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