Easter Bunny Story Introduction

Teacher Name Miss Rawson Date March 26, 2018

Subject Area Language Arts – Writing Grade 3
Topic “5 Things You Didn’t Know…” Intro Time 60 minutes

GLO 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent
to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences.
General Learner GLO 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent
Outcome(s) to manage ideas and information.
Taken from Alberta GLO 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent
Program of Studies to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication.
GLO 5: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent
to respect, support and collaborate with others.
SLO 1.1.6: Set Goals – discuss areas of personal accomplishment as
readers, writers and illustrators
SLO 3.3.1: Organize Information – organize ideas and information,
using a variety of strategies, such as clustering, categorizing and
sequencing
SLO 3.3.2: Organize information — draft ideas and information into
Specific Learner short paragraphs, with topic and supporting sentences
Outcome(s) SLO 4.1.1: Appraise own and others’ work — share own oral, print
Taken from Alberta
Program of Studies and other media texts with others to identify strengths and ideas
for improvement
SLO 4.1.10: Enhance artistry — choose words, language patterns,
illustrations or sounds to add detail and create desired effects in
oral, print and other media texts
SLO 5.2.2: Cooperate with others — identify others who can
provide assistance, and seek their help in specific situations
Learning Students will continue to organize their thoughts and create their
Objectives own stories.
What do you want your Students will learn that revising is part of the writing process and
students to learn? that it is continuous – writer’s learn from their own writing.
Assessment I will continue to use anecdotal notes to assess students, as well as,
How will you know your conference with them. I will assess their final product to determine
students have learned? if they understand the concept of how to write a story.
Materials  10 Things You Never Knew About Santa Claus
What resources will you  Smart board
need?
 Writing notebooks

Introduction Inform students we will be working on a new writing task this

(10 minutes) week.
 Invite them to the back of the room to read a story.
Read 10 Things You Never Knew About Santa Claus.
Introduce new writing activity – 5 Things You Never Knew About
the Easter Bunny.
Brainstorm ideas as a class (what are things we never knew about
Body the Easter Bunny?). Write them on Smart board.
(15 minutes) Ask students to discuss with their elbow partner for 3 minutes
what ideas they like and if they can think of any others.
Have students write their 5 favourite ideas in their writing
notebooks.
Ask students if they have thought of any new ideas we didn’t write
Closure on the board and if they would like to share their ideas with the
(5 minutes) class.
Collect notebooks.

Reflection: