Sarah Abdel Hady Sarah Abdel Hady

Narrative writing story
Lower elementary, G2 level

Description

In this lesson, students learn about the main elements of the story (Setting, Characters, Actions), brainstorming, organizing their ideas into beginning, middle and end and how to write a short narrative story through process and guided writing based on a storytelling about " a Silly Dog & his Reflection." The lesson starts with a personalized discussion about their favorite pets. This is followed by a storytelling where students listen and relate stories about animals. Finally, there's some controlled practice through fill in the gaps and reorder events and semi-controlled practice through describe picture and free practice via final writing task.

Materials

Abc Gap-fill handout
Abc Match-up activity
Abc Give a sentence description
Abc Writing sheet organizer
Abc Guided writing
Abc Power-point presentation

Main Aims

  • To provide process writing practice of a narrative story in the context of silly animals

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of animal stories

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (2-3 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

T asks personalized question to Ss, "do you have any pets, if so what are they?", if not "would you like to raise cats, dogs, birds or fish?" and give them 2 mins to share with their partners before nominating a partner and ask follow up question; "what's its name?", "what breed is it?"

Exposure (2-5 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading/listening

T presents some pictures of the story and asks Ss what they think the story is about and elicit where and when the story takes place. T writes on the board sentence builder how the story starts (S for setting, C for character, an arrow for action) then invites Ss to guess the events of the story.

Gist task and content focus (2-3 minutes) • To ensure that Ss understand the content of the text

Q: Look at the pictures and guess how this dog feels? before the storytelling T asks Ss to work individually to guess the meaning of the blocks. T asks CCQ: What parts of speech are they? Elicit adjectives. Instruct them to look at the text and identify the meaning of each one before clarifying them using MPF technique and giving OCFB.

Useful Language (2-5 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

Ss undertake a guided writing tasks to focus on the structure and the events order. Ss are divided into pairs to do some controlled practice like fill in gaps, match-up activity and semi-controlled practice descriptive task after they listen to the narrative. T monitors and micro-teaches where appropriate. During the feedback T borders the sentence builder and ask CCQs on the content. Q: When does the story happen? In the afternoon Q: Where it happens? In the forest Q: Who's in the story? A silly dog. Q: What happens to Dino? He lost his bone. Q: Why? Because he's greedy T elicit the beginning, middle and the end of the story

Productive Task(s) (3-7 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Ss are divided into groups to plan and prepare their writing and asks Ss to make a list of silly animals and choose one of them to be the character for their story. Ss are given some scaffolding questions to help them brainstorming the setting, character and action. T asks to create their plot and assist weak students.

Feedback and Error Correction (5-7 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

Ss are given sheets and asked to write a story about their chosen silly animal and draw a picture. Once the students have started, T will monitor closely the task and explain punctuation rules such as (period, comma, quotation marks) on board. When the activity has finished T gives task feedback by: Recheck the student's writings using the Feedback chart. Pay their attention to their mistakes gently. T gives a delayed error correction on the board and praises the good productive examples and vote for the best story.

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