O Add Color To The Picture example essay topic

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Writing MinilessonTopic: The importance of including adjectives in writing Grade Level: 3rd or 4th grade Objective: TSW BAT add adjectives to a sentence to make it more appealing and interesting. MO Standards: Goal 2 #2, Communication Arts #1 Students with Special Needs: To serve students with special needs that may not be able to see or write, you could bring objects in to have them touch and feel to describe their detail. Materials: Black and white picture of a person, colored picture of a person, group activity-worksheet of sentences with words written on index card, another worksheet of sentences Procedure: Introduce the Topic: o I was grading everyone's journals for the week and have been noticing that everyone could use some help or ideas to make their writing a bit more interesting. o One way to add appeal to your story is by adding adjectives. o What is an adjective? o Look at this picture of a person (show black and white picture), is it very interesting? o How could we make this picture more appealing? o Add color to the picture and relate this to how adding adjectives in our writing improves it. Share Examples: o Write sentences on the board, leaving spaces for adjective use in the second sentence:" I ran down the road to the lake."I quickly ran down the bumpy road to the sparkling lake". Provide Information: o Using adjectives helps us add "color" to our writing, just like I showed you with the picture.

Supervise Practice: o Hand out a group activity. This includes a worksheet of "plain" sentences and index cards with examples of different adjectives. The group as a whole can re-write the sentences using the examples. Reflect on Learning: o What is an adjective? Why are they important to use in our writing?

Assessment: For assessment, hand out a worksheet for them to begin working on in class, or taken home and due the next day. It would include a list of sentences that needed descriptive words included with them. They would also be assessed within their next journal entry to see if they are having more adjective use..