TeachingLearning the Writing Process of a Short Story 1011 years old: Grade 56

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Teaching/Learning the Writing Process of a Short
Story10/11 years old Grade 5/6

• Created by Kristy LaPorte

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Lesson Objectives

• Given a handout on the writing process, a handout
  how to use the computer, and a computer, the
  students will be able to write a story using the
  correct form of the writing process
  (introduction, two full body paragraphs, and a
  conclusion)

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Lesson Objectives

• The students will be able to successfully use the
  computer with internet links (www.kidspiration.com
  and www.highlightskids.com) to further their
  understanding and enhance their learning on the
  writing process.

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Introduce the Learning Activity

• I would start by telling the students Today we
  will learn to write a story using the correct
  form for the writing process. It is important to
  know the steps of the writing process before we
  attempt to start writing a story. (The students
  will already have their topics that they want to
  write about when they have mastered the steps)

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Provide Information

• We will first go into the computer lab. There, I
  will start by asking the students what they
  already know about writing and if they know
  anything about its process.

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Provide Information

• Then, I will hand out a sheet that is called The
  Writing Process to the students. We will then
  read all of the steps to make sure that everyone
  knows what the steps are requiring and if there
  are no questions, I will have the students start
  writing their story.

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Provide Information

• Once the students have finished writing their
  story, they are able to go online to
  www.kidspiration.com and go to download a free
  trial and try this site out and they can also go
  to www.highlightskids.com and go to story soup on
  the left hand column (click this) and then on the
  upper right hand side you will see a box named
  story adventure, you decide what happensGO
  (click this) and the students will be able to
  read the story and finish it their own way.

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Provide Practice

• Everyday for a week, I will start each class by
  reviewing the writing process. The students will
  continue to work on several short stories and
  having the opportunity to continue to use the two
  different websites.

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Provide Knowledge of Results

• As the students are writing and using the
  websites each day, I will go around form student
  to student watching them to make sure that they
  are on the right track. I will make sure to tell
  them, verbally, what they are doing excellent on
  and if they are not doing something properly, I
  will tell them in a positive way what they need
  to change or I will talk to them in person at my
  desk if further teaching is necessary.

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Provide Knowledge of Results

• I will continue to praise the students for all of
  the work they have done and that I know that they
  can do it if they take their time at it. When
  each student is finished with a short story, they
  will come to my desk and we will critique it
  together. We will discuss what is right with it
  or not, what words are misspelled, and so on.

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Review the Activity

• At the end of each day, we will discuss as a
  class what the writing process is and how it
  helps us when we are writing a story.

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Review the Activity

• Once we have discussed that, we will then go
  around to each and every student as ask them what
  they thought worked on that day and how the
  writing process has helped them individually.

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Method of Assessment

• In order to assess that the students have
  correctly learned how to write a story using the
  writing process steps, I would individually read
  their finished product stories and grade them
  after one week is over and I will give each
  student a quiz on the writing process.

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Method of Assessment

• For the quiz, I will have a short story that will
  be handed out and each student has to put the
  correct names of each part of the story.
  (introduction, paragraphs, body, conclusion)