Imaginative writing
This plan addresses emerging writing skills by engaging the student's interest in creating original drawings.This plan is for Special Needs students, non-readers with limited writing skills, and reluctant learners.
A lesson plan for grades K–1 English Language Arts
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Learning outcomes
Students will:
- create original drawings of their choosing.
- use these drawings as a basis for the story writings.
- dictate the story to scribe and copy the story in their own hand.
- learn to write words and form sentences.
- learn to punctuate their work correctly.
- name and label their work using peel off file labels.
- place their labeled work in sheet protectors.
- place their completed works in a notebook.
Teacher planning
Time required for lesson
10 months
Materials/resources
- Paper, plain white and notebook paper
- Pencils
- Crayons
- Colored Pencils
- File folder peel off labels
- Plastic sheet protectors
- Notebook
Pre-activities
The student will need basic graphic skills and basic letter recognition.
Activities
- Teacher and student will brainstorm ideas of interest to student.
- The student will draw and color an original picture.
- Teacher and student will discuss possible stories that correspond to the picture.
- Student will dictate story to scribe.
- Student will select a title for the story.
- Student will copy the story.
- Teacher will question student to help him watch for correct spelling, capitals, spacing etc.
- Student will label the picture and write the title on file folder labels and attach label to picture.
- Student will place picture and story into sheet protector (one story and one picture in each sheet protector).
- Student will place story into notebook.
Assessment
Assess how well students:
- copy sentences, observing punctuation and capitalization rules.
- self correct when prompted by questioning.
- meet all criteria more consistently over time (see attachments for examples of student growth: pict1 and write1 are from beginning of the year, pict2 and write2 are from midyear, and pict3 and write3 are from the end of the year.)
- self-correct from simple repetitive practice.
Supplemental information
Comments
This lesson was developed for a homebound setting (one-on-one) but could be easily adapted for use in the classroom.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
- Objective 5.03: Write all upper and lower case letters of the alphabet, using correct letter formation.
- Objective 5.05: Use basic capitalization and punctuation
- first word in a sentence.
- proper names.
- period to end declarative sentence.
- question mark to end interrogative sentence.
Kindergarten
- Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
- Objective 2.01: Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).
