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Interactive Writing Notebooks Bonus Lesson: Text-Based Short Response to Literature
Interactive Writing Notebooks Bonus Lesson: Text-Based Short Response to Literature Purpose: Provide students with a method or formula for writing short responses to literature. Technology/Resources: all included How-To: Page 1: 1. The cards do not need to be colored, but have students trace over the letter and diamonds of the red card so that it looks like a card that belongs in the diamond suit. 2. Color the card holder. Keep it in reds, blacks, and grays. 3. Cut out the cards and the card holder. 4. Write the explanations for Answer, Cite, Explain on the cards. See Notes for Writing on Cards. 5. You will only need to glue the side edges and bottom of the card holder/pocket. Do NOT put any glue in the middle or along any of the rounded portion. 6. Once the glue has dried, store the cards in the pocket. Notes for Writing on Cards Answer the question succinctly, restating the question in the answer. Cite text evidence that strongly supports your answer. Direct = quote; Indirect = paraphrase Explain how the text evidence supports your answer. Elaborate and Extend when necessary.
Interactive Writing Notebooks Bonus Lesson: Text-Based Short Response to Literature Page 2: 1. The next interactive notebook template is a tab-lock fold. Color the W and C cards as shown in the first photo. Write Ways to and Cite Text on the cards. 2. Fold both sides in towards the middle so that it opens up as shown below. Write the ways for citing text inside the tab-lock template. Use the notes below to help you. 3. Glue this into your notebook below the ACE template. Use between 6-9 tiny dots on the back of the template where indicated in gray. 4. Close the tab-lock template by tucking the tabs under each card. If you look carefully below, you will see the outlines of the tabs under the cards. Notes for Writing on Template on page 12 in paragraph 4 the author states according to the text an example from the text
Bonus Lesson: Text-Based Short Response to Literature Discussion Questions!
Bonus Lesson: Text-Based Short Response to Literature glue this section into notebook
Bonus Lesson: Text-Based Short Response to Literature Purpose: Practice writing a short response to literature using the ACE method. Technology/Resources: The Emperor s New Clothes short story: http://www.townsendpress.com/uploaded_files/tinymce/library %20Excerpts/Timeless_chap1.pdf OR video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wng-esuk9i0 Alternate download site for video clip: http://goo.gl/bq jti0 How to: 1. Read or watch the video clip for The Emperor s New Clothes. 2. Practice writing a short response to literature. The Emperor s New Clothes What character trait is revealed about the emperor through his actions as the story unfolds? Choose one trait and back it up with text evidence. In The Emperor s New Clothes, the emperor s actions reveal that he is gullible. On page 5, the emperor stood in front of the mirror ready to march in his parade. When the people exclaimed, Oh, how well they look! How well they fit! the emperor believed them, allowing his fear of looking foolish to cloud his judgment. Although the emperor saw himself naked in the mirror, he was so gullible that he was easily tricked into believing that only the hopelessly stupid would be unable to see his new clothes.
Bonus Lesson: Text-Based Short Response to Literature The Emperor s New Clothes What character trait is revealed about the emperor through his actions as the story unfolds? Choose one trait and support your answer with text evidence.
Bonus Lesson: Text-Based Short Response to Literature
Bonus Lesson: Text-Based Short Response to Literature
Teacher s Guide / FAQ for Getting Started Why should I use interactive notebooks when I m already struggling to fit everything into my day? Interactive notebooks should not be another thing added to your day on top of what you are already doing. Instead, change what you are already doing to accommodate interactive notebooks. As a middle school teacher, I was already having my students take notes into their notebooks anytime I taught new content (such as what is included in this packet). Interactive notebooking took the place of my giving notes. I consider the time it takes my students to construct their interactive notes as part of my explicit instruction time. And it is so much more meaningful than a lecture! When students construct these 3D graphic organizers and then put the information they are learning into them, they are making connections and organizing these topics in their brains in a different and more meaningful way than they would be if I were simply lecturing this material or if they were simply taking notes. Furthermore, most of my interactive notes are organized in a way that students can study them like flashcards without having to go through the trouble of writing out flashcards. Do I have to use composition notebooks? Although teachers have successfully used spiral notebooks for interactive notebooking, composition books are truly better. They are more durable, less likely to fall apart, and the pages are far less likely to get torn out. I first decided to use interactive notebooks after a summer workshop when school supplies had already been ordered. Since I have about 150 students, my school (mandates that students purchase pre-packaged supplies) had already purchased 150 Five Star spiral 3-subject notebooks for me. No way was I getting composition notebooks on top of that! So I waited for them to go on sale at Wal-Mart and Target for $0.50 each and slowly purchased 150 of them, about 40 at a time. Some were also purchased (in limited quantities) at Big Lots and Walgreens for as low as $0.20. Now, you can still implement interactive 3d graphic organizers without ever putting them into a notebook if this works better for you. One teacher I met makes lapbooks for each of her social studies units. After she grades them and shows students their grades, she collects the unit lapbooks and files them. Then, she hands them all back before state testing so that students can study. If you re interested in compiling these into lapbooks, here s a great tutorial on constructing lapbooks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1inxbba3cg!"
Does the type of glue really matter? Interactive Writing Notebooks Teacher s Guide, Page 2 Absolutely! You definitely need to use Elmer s school glue when gluing items into your interactive notebooks. Many students may purchase and use the glue sticks, but these are definitely not recommended for interactive notebooking. Yes, they re more convenient and less messy, but they will not bond the paper permanently. I always tell my students that we use liquid glue because it will stick forever. Not only does the type of glue matter, but the method of gluing matters also. Here s a tip I learned at a workshop: NO TOASTER STRUDELING! You know what I m talking about, and your kids will LOVE this analogy. I even begin by putting an image of a yummy cream cheese toaster strudel up on my SmartBoard and asking my students if they ve ever eaten one. Most of them have. Do you like putting on the icing? Most students will say it s their favorite part! Well, you will NOT be toaster strudeling in my classroom! This analogy really works for reminding students of the correct method of gluing items into interactive notebooks. Toaster strudeling will result in wavy pages and huge, sticky messes. So what s the proper way to glue? Use small dots (I call them baby dots) spread about 1 inch apart. That s it! The phrases I use with my students are just a dot, not a lot and baby dots and of course NO toaster strudeling! How should I organize my interactive notebooks? Before interactive notebooks, my students literature notebooks were a nightmare! Now, instead of students having a hodge-podge spiral notebook that contains many random things (and notes here and there), they have an organized reference book of everything I ve taught them that makes it easy to study now and easy to save for future reference. During finals last year, I asked one 8 th grade girl, Where is your literature notebook? I told you to make sure it was in class today! She responded I left it at home. My brother is in 10 th grade and he was borrowing it to study for his English final. Needless to say, the girl did not receive the usual 1 point off for not having her materials. It is my hope that the interactive notebooks my students take away from my class can serve as a valuable reference source for them in the high school years ahead (and beyond!). When you begin using your interactive notebooks, be sure to leave about 3 blank pages at the beginning for your table of contents. Every time you make another entry, log it in your table of contents. What a great real-world lesson on this text feature! Here is an example of what one page of the table of contents looked like for my 7 th grade notebook.!!"
Interactive Writing Notebooks Teacher s Guide, Page 3 In what order should I teach the concepts in the Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks packet? I have included many lessons and skills that I teach to my 6th, 7th, and 8th grade literature students. The order I presented them in this packet is close to the order in which I teach these skills. Still, they can be taught in any order or sequence that fits your classroom and the skills that you teach! You can skip some skills, dig into others more deeply, and mix and match them as you see fit. Take what works for you and modify it to fit your own classroom needs. Furthermore, if you look closely at the table of contents, you will see that not everything in my students interactive notebook is content. I also have students glue in their AR goals, records, and even instructions that I don t want them to lose, such as how to access my Quizlet site. You recommend many Youtube video clips, but my school blocks Youtube on our network. There are a couple of ways around that. First, you can create SafeShare.tv links from home by visiting http://safeshare.tv and entering in the Youtube video link I have provided. This will produce an ad-free (and comment-free!) video page that many schools allow on their network. The second option and the option I use is http://www.savetube.com. You might be required to update your java, but after that you will be able to enter a Youtube video link and then download a.mp4 file (Mac) or a.wmv file (Windows) that you can bring to school on a flash drive, network drive, or stash in your Google drive. I like using this method because I can keep the video clips saved for next year, but it does require a level of technical proficiency and some users struggle with it.!!!"
Teacher s Guide, Page 4 Do I need separate composition notebooks for reading literature, reading informational text, and/ or writing? NO! My students keep all of their ELA interactive activities in ONE notebook. I can imagine that using multiple notebooks would create a nightmare of having the right notebook at the right time and gluing the wrong template into the wrong notebook. I have come a little close, but I have never filled an entire composition notebook. If we happened to fill one, I guess we d just get new notebooks and start over, keeping the old ones around for reference! As long as we re logging what we re doing in the Table of Contents, it will be easy enough to find what we need, even if it IS all in one notebook. What about Bell Ringers and/or daily writing entries? Do you put those into the interactive notebook? NO WAY! I never have my students stick random things into their precious interactive notebooks. These notebooks are sacred and no kind of daily work or jargon goes in there. Everything we put into our notebooks is useful in some way. I put things into the notebook that we will need to refer back to at some point, to help recall information, and as a record of the concepts, skills, and strategies we ve learned. Don t junk up that notebook! I have another place for daily activities and free-write stuff. Do you have a pacing guide? In my previous interactive notebook products, many teachers have requested pacing guides. I ve always been reluctant to set a pacing guide with reading activities since the time spent on each concept varies so much by grade level and individual class needs. Since writing is somewhat more structured I can offer this skeleton of a pacing guide, but please slow down or speed up as your students need. You may also need to bring in additional activities and resources to supplement those in this product. The instructions for some of the lessons between Lessons 12-24 are somewhat redundant. Yes. All of these are types of paragraphs and follow the same typical pattern. Knowing that you might choose to teach them in any order, I did not assume that you already knew how to assemble any of the templates, so I included all necessary instructions needed for each lesson for your convenience.!#"
: Sentences, Paragraphs, & Strategies for Common Core The Table of Contents for this product is included next.!
Teacher s Guide Interactive Writing Notebooks TABLE OF CONTENTS Lesson 1: Dead Words & Dead Verbs, Activity 1 Example 1 Lesson 1: Dead Words & Dead Verbs, Activity 1 Teacher s Instructions & Notes 2 Lesson 1: Dead Words & Dead Verbs, Activity 1 Student Pages 3-4 Lesson 1: Dead Words & Dead Verbs, Activity 2 Example 5 Lesson 1: Dead Words & Dead Verbs, Activity 2 Teacher s Instructions & Notes 6 Lesson 1: Dead Words & Dead Verbs, Activity 2 Student Pages 7-8 Lesson 2: Vivid Verbs, Activity 1 Example 9 Lesson 2: Vivid Verbs, Activity 1 Teacher s Instructions & Notes 10 Lesson 2: Vivid Verbs, Activity 1 Student Pages 11-13 Lesson 2: Vivid Verbs, Activity 2 Example 14 Lesson 2: Vivid Verbs, Activity 2 Teacher s Instructions & Notes 15 i, ii, iii, iv Lesson 2: Vivid Verbs, Activity 2 Student Pages 16-17 Lesson 2: Vivid Verbs, Activity 3 Example 18 Lesson 2: Vivid Verbs, Activity 3 Teacher s Instructions & Notes 19-20 Lesson 2: Vivid Verbs, Activity 3 Student Pages 21 Lesson 3: Describers Example 22 Lesson 3: Describers Teacher s Instructions & Notes 23 Lesson 3: Describers Student Page 24 Lesson 4: Good Sentences Example 25 Lesson 4: Good Sentences Teacher s Instructions and Notes 26-27 Lesson 4: Good Sentences Student Pages 28-30 Lessons 5-8 Explanation 31 Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1 Example 32 Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1 Teacher s Instructions & Notes 33-34 Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1 Student Pages 35-36 Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2 Example 37
TABLE OF CONTENTS Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2 Teacher s Instructions & Notes 38-40 Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2 Student Page 41 Lesson 6: Better Sentences Example 42 Lesson 6: Better Sentences Teacher s Instructions & Notes 43 Lesson 6: Better Sentences Student Pages 44-47 Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 1 Example 48 Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 1 Teacher s Instructions & Notes 49 Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 1 Student Pages 50-51 Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 2 Example 52 Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 2 Student Pages 53-54 Lesson 8: Short Response to Literature, Activity 1 Example 55 Lesson 8: Short Response to Literature, Activity 1 Teacher s Instructions & Notes 56 Lesson 8: Short Response to Literature, Activity 1 Student Page 57 Lesson 8: Short Response to Literature, Activity 2 Teacher s Instructions & Notes 58 Lesson 8: Short Response to Literature, Activity 2 Student Pages 59-61 Lesson 9: Narrative Writing, Activity 1 Example 62 Lesson 9: Narrative Writing, Activity 1 Teacher s Instructions & Notes 63-64 Lesson 9: Narrative Writing, Activity 1 Student Page 65 Lesson 9: Narrative Writing, Activity 2 Example 66 Lesson 9: Narrative Writing, Activity 3 Example 67 Lesson 9: Narrative Writing, Activity 2-3 Teacher s Instructions & Notes 68-69 Lesson 9: Narrative Writing, Activity 2-3 Student Pages 70-72 Lesson 9: Narrative Writing, Activity 4 Teacher s Instructions & Notes 73-74 Lesson 10: Transition Words Example 75 Lesson 10: Transition Words Teacher s Instructions & Notes 76 Lesson 10: Transition Words Student Pages 77-79 Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 1 Example 80
TABLE OF CONTENTS Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 1 Teacher s Instructions 81-83 Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 1 Student Pages 84-87 Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2 Example 88 Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2 Teacher s Instructions 89-90 Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2 Student Pages 91-92 Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 3 Example 93 Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 3 Teacher s Instructions 94-95 Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 3 Student Pages 96-98 Lesson 12: Write an Expository Paragraph Teacher s Instructions 99 Lesson 12: Write an Expository Paragraph Student Page 100-101 Lesson 13: Descriptive Paragraphs Exemplar Close Reading Teacher s Instructions 102-104 Lesson 13: Descriptive Paragraphs Exemplar Close Reading Student Pages 105-109 Lesson 14: Write a Descriptive Paragraph Teacher s Instructions & Notes 110 Lesson 14: Write a Descriptive Paragraph Student Pages 111-113 Lesson 15: Sequence Paragraphs Close Reading of Exemplar A Example 114 Lesson 15: Sequence Paragraphs Close Reading of Exemplar A Teacher s Notes 115-116 Lesson 15: Sequence Paragraphs Close Reading of Exemplar A Student Pages 117-118 Lesson 16: Write a Sequence Paragraph A (Procedures) Teacher s Instructions 119 Lesson 16: Write a Sequence Paragraph A (Procedures) Student Pages 120 Lesson 17: Sequence Paragraphs Close Reading of Exemplar B Example 121 Lesson 17: Sequence Paragraphs Close Reading of Exemplar B Teacher s Notes 122-124 Lesson 17: Sequence Paragraphs Close Reading of Exemplar B Student Pages 125-126 Lesson 18: Write a Sequence Paragraph B (Events) Teacher s Instructions 127-128 Lesson 18: Write a Sequence Paragraph B (Events) Student Pages 129-130 Lesson 19: Compare & Contrast Close Reading of Exemplar Examples 131-132 Lesson 19: Compare & Contrast Close Reading of Exemplar Teacher s Notes 133-136 Lesson 19: Compare & Contrast Close Reading of Exemplar Student Pages 137-139 Lesson 20: Write a Compare & Contrast Paragraph Teacher s Notes 140
Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks TABLE OF CONTENTS Lesson 20: Write a Compare & Contrast Paragraph Student Page 141 Lesson 21: Problem & Solution Close Reading of Exemplar Example 142 Lesson 21: Problem & Solution Close Reading of Exemplar Teacher s Instructions 143-145 Lesson 21: Problem & Solution Close Reading of Exemplar Student Pages 146-147 Lesson 22: Write a Problem & Solution Paragraph Teacher s Instructions 148 Lesson 22: Write a Problem & Solution Paragraph Student Page 149 Lesson 23: Cause & Effect Close Reading of Exemplar Example 150 Lesson 23: Cause & Effect Close Reading of Exemplar Teacher s Instructions 151-153 Lesson 23: Cause & Effect Close Reading of Exemplar Student Pages 154-155 Lesson 24: Write a Cause & Effect Paragraph Teacher s Instructions 156 Lesson 24: Write a Cause & Effect Paragraph Student Page 157 Lesson 25: Opinion/Argumentative Paragraph Exemplar Example 158 Lesson 25: Opinion/Argumentative Paragraph Exemplar Teacher s Instructions 159-161 Lesson 25: Opinion/Argumentative Paragraph Exemplar Student Pages 162-164 Lesson 26: Write an Opinion/Argumentative Paragraph Teacher s Instructions 165 Lesson 26: Write an Opinion/Argumentative Paragraph Student Page 166 **NOTES** Included in a separate document in download you will find pages a32-a54, alternate versions of Lessons 5-8 as explained on page 31. The Common Core Alignment for Grades 3-6 can be found at the end of this document. Additional resources are located in the Appendix.