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[|Web 2.0 Tool] I could spend all day on this site finding cool sites to use in my classroom. I researched the writing tools. There were some amazing web tools for writing. There are many wonderful sites for my students to use to engage them in their writing process. I would use the following links in my lessons.

[|Student Publishing] This site is wonderful to have students make master pieces. You could make a class book. This site has books you can publisher for $3.00. This would make a great Mother's or Father's Day #|gift. You could use this site just to teach some computer skills.

[|Tikatok] This site is wonderful to have students make master pieces. You could make a class book. You can order a digital download for $2.99. You could use this site just to teach some computer skills.

[|Wordle], [|Tagxedo],[|WordMosiac], [|Tagul], [|WordItOut], [|Wondersay] These sites are great to practice spelling words. They are great to use for character building. I had my students say nice things about each other as I typed the words into Wordle. Then, I printed them out and hung them up for conferences. The students love hearing positive things about themselves from their peers. In the computer lab, you can have students type up word families and print out.

[|Spell City] This site was not listed in my web tool list under writing, however, I think this is a great site to help with spelling lists. You can play games to introduce new math words, spelling words, unit words, vocabulary words etc. You can use the site just to practice and learn the words. You can use this site to give the actual spelling test to your students. You can can use this site to track student progress.

[|Spelling Cow] The web tools site listed this site, however, I did not find it as user friendly as Spell City which I have used in the past.

Curriculum Overview Writing Process: My students will able to apply pre-writing activities to generate ideas for example brainstorming and graphic organizers. LA 0.2.1b My students will write up graphic organizers to begin the writing process.

Vocabulary: My students will build literary, academic, and content specific grade level vocabulary. LA 0.1.5 (Word Families) My students will need to practice word families to begin the sounding out word process.

Word Analysis : My students will use phonetic knowledge to write. LA 0.1.3d My students will use their invented spelling to begin the writing process.

Writing Process: My students will demonstrate that writing communicates thoughts and ideas. LA 0.2.1a My students will create their own story!

Since my students are in kindergarten, I will be overseeing the entire writing process. I will be there to guide them each step of the way!!!

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= Curriculum Overview =

Class: Kindergarten

Unit: Writing

Teacher: Mrs. Anderson

Objective Day One: My students will be able to sound out words. They will be able to write lists of words on their marker boards.

Standards: LA 0.1.1.d My students will demonstrate their understanding that words are made up of letters. LA 0.1.3.d My students will use phonetic knowledge to write.

Anticipatory Set: I will have my students watch you tube videos to get them excited about writing words. [|Sounding out the word hat!,],[|Sounding out words from Starfall!]

Teaching Input: My students will watch the video on the sounding out words. Then, I will go through the process of sounding out words before they begin on the marker boards.

Teaching Modeling: I will go through the sounding out process before I encourage my students to write words on their own.

Teaching: Checking for Understanding...I will make sure my students are saying the correct sounds when I am writing words. I will also have my students take the word family quiz.[|Quiz]

Questioning Strategies : What was the first sound? What was the second sound? What was the last sound?

Guided/Independent Practice: I will say a word. Then, I will slowly sound out the word as the students are writing the words on their marker boards. Then, I will have the students hold up their marker boards. We will then go into the computer lab and practice sounding out words on the Starfall website. ([|Starfall Website])

Closure: During our rap up lesson, we will discuss what skills we used today.

Materials: [|Sounding Out the word hat!], [|Sounding out words from Starfall],marker boards, erasers, and dry erase markers

Duration: The lesson will last one hour. . Objectives Day Two: My students will use be able to fill in graphic organizers.

Standards: LA 0.2.1b My students will #|apply pre-writing activities to generate ideas (e.g., brainstorming, discussions, drawing) LA 0.2.1c My students will generate representations of ideas (e.g., pictures, labels, letter strings, words, simple sentences); select and organize ideas relevant to a #|topic.

Anticipatory Set: I will have my students watch a video on my Prezi ([|My Prezi]) to get them ready to make graphic organizers. We will brain storm some graphic organizers together to get them started on writing or drawing out pictures for their own graphic organizer.

Teaching Input: My students will watch the video on my Prezi. Then, they will watch me go through the process before they will begin.

Teaching Modeling: I will model how to fill in a graphic organizer. Then, we will do a graphic organizer as a class.

Teaching: Checking for Understanding...I will check for understanding as we fill in a few organizers together before they begin on their own. As they write their own graphic organizers, I will be walking around an evaluating their working. I will help them make changes as needed before they get to the actual story writing.

Questioning Strategies: What is the beginning of our/your story? What is the middle of our/your story? What is the end of our/your story?

Guided Practice: We will be filling in our graphic organizers as a class.

Independent Practice: My students will be filling in their own graphic organizer.

Closure: During our rap up lesson, we will discuss why we use graphic organizers. Then, we will discuss what we need to do when using our graphic organizer to write our story.

Materials: Parent Volunteers, [|My Prezi], Copies of their Graphic Organizer to fill inn.



Duration: The lesson will last an hour.

Objectives Day 3,4 & 5 : My students will use the [|Student Publisher] to write their own story. They will be able to use their knowledge about letter sounds to form words. They will be able to write sentences and show their comprehension of what they are writing about. In this activity, they will be applying their writing knowledge in their stories.

Standards: LA 0.2 My students will learn and apply writing skills and strategies to communicate. LA 0.2.1 My students will use writing to communicate. LA 0.2.1.a My students will demonstrate that writing communicates thoughts and ideas. LA 0.1.3.d My students will use phonetic knowledge to write (e.g., approximated spelling)

Anticipatory Set: I will have my students watch a video to get them excited about making their own stories. [|Student Publisher Video]

Teaching Input: My students will watch the video on the Student Publisher. Then, they will watch me go through the process of using a graphic organizer to guide me.

Teaching Modeling: I will go through the Student Publisher and make a class book using input from my students before I let them make their own books.

Teaching: Checking for Understanding...I will need to make sure their stories have a beginning, middle, and end to the story. I will need to check the rubric for understanding. [|Rubric]

Questioning Strategies: What do we do when we are trying to spell a word? Does our story have a beginning? Does our story have a middle? Does our story have an end? What topic should you write about?

Guided Practice: We will be making our class book together in Student Publisher.

Independent Practice: My students will need to write their own story in Student Publisher.

Closure: During our rap up lesson, we will discuss what skills we used today and where we ended. Then, we will discuss what we need to do when continuing with the project.

Materials: Parent Volunteers, [|Student Publisher] My students will use this to make their story. We also need a copy of our graphic organizers we filled in the day before. I will also need the rubric to evaluate my students.

Duration: The lesson will begin with an hour. Then, we will evaluate the remainder of the work and make a plan to complete our books in the next couple of days.