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“Today I want to….when you write and revise as a historian, you need to think about not only good qualities of writing, but also qualities of good history" 

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“Today I want to….when you write and revise as a historian, you need to think about not only good qualities of writing, but also qualities of good history" 

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“Today I want to teach you that our essays are strong in both form and content.  We want to dig deep into thinking and plan for our writing."

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“Today I want to teach you that our essays are strong in both form and content.  We want to dig deep into thinking and plan for our writing."

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“Today I want to teach you that information writers often make plans for how to organize their information writing. Writers make one plan, then they think about a different plan, and they keep doing this over and over."

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“Today I want to teach you that information writers often make plans for how to organize their information writing. Writers make one plan, then they think about a different plan, and they keep doing this over and over."

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“Today I want to teach you that whenever you want some help with your writing, you can find it. Just choose a mentor text for yourself, and find what you admire, why you admire that part, and how the author wrote it. Then, try the same move in your writing”

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“Today I want to teach you that whenever you want some help with your writing, you can find it. Just choose a mentor text for yourself, and find what you admire, why you admire that part, and how the author wrote it. Then, try the same move in your writing”

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"Today I want to teach you that when writer’s want to write stories that come to life on the page, they tell their stories in small steps, bit by bit  Writers think about the stories they want to write and then tell what happened step by step, bit by bit. "

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"Today I want to teach you that when writer’s want to write stories that come to life on the page, they tell their stories in small steps, bit by bit  Writers think about the stories they want to write and then tell what happened step by step, bit by bit. "

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Having students share their writing in front of the class with a plastic microphone or share with a peer.

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Choose a book to use as a mentor text that you really enjoy to read.

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Choose a book to use as a mentor text that you really enjoy to read.

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choice of various organizers

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Pull tons of nonfiction books from the library for kids to read lots. Have them look through the books for ideas

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Use songs and familiar stories to get students motivated.

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Use songs and familiar stories to get students motivated.

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Take a picture of them with their writing work.

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Take a picture of them with their writing work.

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Having students answer one question each day....

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Show previous students anonymously
Write it in the shape of something they like
add

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Focus on compliments first for feedback. What are you doing well? Build on what they know to help create confidence. Call them authors! 

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Focus on compliments first for feedback. What are you doing well? Build on what they know to help create confidence. Call them authors! 

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Show them a professional author's drafting process and their finished product.  

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Show them a professional author's drafting process and their finished product.  

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Let them know that their writing has meaning and is important and make them believe that.

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Let them know that their writing has meaning and is important and make them believe that.

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brainstorm a list of historically based topics of interest

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brainstorm a list of historically based topics of interest

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Can use the end writing product to create a presentation/recording from the perspective of a historical figure.

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use mentor texts to show how different authors plan and organize their writing

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sharing with peers, peers offering compliments

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sharing with peers, peers offering compliments

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Help them think about a funny or interesting story they could share.

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Help them think about a funny or interesting story they could share.

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Provide students with multiple examples of mentor texts. Allow them to choose. 

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Provide students with multiple examples of mentor texts. Allow them to choose. 

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Have kids talk about when they have written about history in the past

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find texts from various perspectives

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Provide choices based on their interests 

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Provide choices based on their interests 

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Look for pictures about what you are planning

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Look for pictures about what you are planning

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Possibly pull in different perspective pieces about the same historical event and evaluate accuracy or bias

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Just like the piece of cake having form and taste.  Our writing needs to have structure or organization and content. While we are continuing with the structure we are now going to focus on content and be sure we have examples that our evidence to show why our opinion is convincing

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Just like the piece of cake having form and taste.  Our writing needs to have structure or organization and content. While we are continuing with the structure we are now going to focus on content and be sure we have examples that our evidence to show why our opinion is convincing

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Show slides with the page(s) of the different mentor texts  and favorite books that show author's craft in what the teacher is highlighting. They can be on a student pace PearDeck. Students can leave the page open so they can try that on their writing.
They can take a picture and read it on Seesaw If the piece is being shared with the whole classroom, it can be posted on Seesaw's blog