Descriptive writing and the 100th day of school
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A lesson plan for grades K–1 English Language Arts
Students practice their descriptive writing skills and counting in this lesson for the 100th day of school. The teacher engages students in a brainstorming activity where they think of the type of items that could be placed in a bottle 100 times. Then students create a 100th day bottle and write clues for classmates to guess the content of the bottle. The teacher leads students in a discussion comparing weight, space, sound, color, shape, and smell of the bottles. Then, after the class discussion, the teacher challenges students to write about the contents of their bottles and the process they used for choosing the items. Readwritethink provides worksheets that will assist students in writing descriptions of their bottles at their individual levels. This lesson concludes with the creation of a class book with each page describing the content of the students’ bottles. Readwritethink provides links to several resources for the teacher to use on the 100th day as well as extension activities.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.02: Use words that name characters and settings (who, where) and words that tell action and events (what happened, what did ___ do) in simple texts.
Kindergarten
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.03: Use words that describe color, size, and location in a variety of texts: e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences.
