Lesson Plan : Five Ws
Teacher Name: | Ms. Williams |
Grade: | Grade 3 |
Subject: | Language Arts |
Topic: | Creative Story Writings |
Content: | Five W's Chart |
Goals: | Students learn how to focus on the five Ws in order to begin creative story writing. |
Objectives: | Find a juicy yet short magazine or newspaper article. Read it aloud. Ask students to take a moment and use highlighters to mark the important information in the article. Ask students to choose another color another color highlighter or pen, and model which parts you would have marked. Discuss why you have chosen these parts (This is who the article is about... Here is the date and time of the incident... This part describes where...) |
Materials: | Magazine or newspaper articles Highlighters Five Ws template Scissors |
Introduction: | The Five Ws should be easily identifiable in any story. By thinking about them beforehand in the pre-writing stage, drafting becomes much more productive. Who, What, Where, When, Why should become a large part in any Writers workshop. |
Development: | Students will learn: 1. Who is involved 2. What happened 3. Where it happened (place) 4. When it happened (time) 5. Why it happened |
Practice: | 1. Choose another magazine/newspaper article story. 2. In small groups, have students read the article. 3. Ask them to create a vertical foldable (fold along the dotted lines) and then fill out the foldable with the facts: who, what, where, when, why. Ask them to bullet point as many details as they can about each aspect of the article. |
Accommodations: | If time permits or at a later time, have students write newspaper-like articles or fiction stories based upon their foldables. |
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