Procedural Writing Assignment

This week we are going to be working on an assignment focused on procedural writing and brochures. Students will be designing and writing a brochure that explains how to do something, for example, How to log into Edmodo. We have created an anchor chart to talk about what characteristics good procedural writing has, and we also created a Bump it Up wall, which students can use to see exactly where their writing might fall in a spectrum from level 1 to level 4. Here is a picture of our Procedural writing anchor chart:

And here is a picture of our Bump it Up Wall:

Using these tools, students should have a good idea of what makes quality writing when giving instructions. One thing I have tried to emphasize with students is that they need to write each step in detail, and add adverbial phrases to create more detail. For example, instead of writing:

1) get a pencil

They could write:

1) get a pencil from your pencil case  (underlined is the adverbial phrase - it describes where, how or when).

To look more closely at the examples on our Bump It Up Wall:

Additionally, we looked at brochures and came up with an anchor chart to tell us some features of a good brochure. Here is what we noticed a good brochure has:

Tomorrow I will be handing out the rubric detailing how students will be assessed and we will continue working on our assignment.

More Patterning Practice!

Today we spent some more time reviewing patterning concepts for our test on Monday. I posted some questions on the Smartboard and students answered them in their notebooks. We took them up together and (hopefully) corrected any misconceptions. Here are the questions we used. Please feel free to use these to review concepts with your child.

Patterning review part 2

Next week we will also be completing a few problems from EQAO and a unit problem to wrap up our assessment of our patterning unit. The next unit we will be working on will be number sense - specifically whole numbers. 

In language next week we will begin learning about procedural writing and identifying what characteristics good procedural writing has. We will look at a number of examples, and give them a level, which we will use to create our Bump It Up wall. Afterwards we will be looking at an example of procedural writing and beginning to explain some procedures on our own. 

Have a great weekend everyone!