Part of this ten week programme is to work with teachers at St Dominic's and help them to improve their writing. I am going to come in to classes and model a week of teaching personification. I decided on this because personification is generally the hardest language feature to teach and I wanted to show that it can be easy if you scaffold the students into it with whole class, pair and independent activities.
I started this week and have found the class, Room 9, very receptive, they picked up the concept quickly, responded well to my teaching and today we looked at a piece of quality writing by David Hill, then started a piece of writing.
They all started a recount about a scary or exciting time and 99% of them used a piece of personification in the story.
Here is the lesson plan:
Share the learning intention:
We are learning how to use personification in our writing.
Whole class:
What is personification? Do you know any examples? Why use it in our writing?
Brainstorm ideas for describing a windy tree using personification.
Glue cameo into books, read it quietly. First time, teacher reads it aloud while the students read along. Second time, teacher reads it aloud while students highlight personification and other awesome vocab or language features.
Discuss highlighted sections. Why is it good writing?
Share task, in this case to write about a scary or exciting time.
Glue in Task and LI/SC sheet. Students discuss with buddies what they will write about, plan it out using 1. 2. 3. key words for paragraphs.
Silent writing. Teacher roams, fills in feedback and feed forward, on task sheet, based on the first paragraph.
Students share the sentence containing personification at the end, if they want to.
I started this week and have found the class, Room 9, very receptive, they picked up the concept quickly, responded well to my teaching and today we looked at a piece of quality writing by David Hill, then started a piece of writing.
They all started a recount about a scary or exciting time and 99% of them used a piece of personification in the story.
Here is the lesson plan:
Personification
Recrafting to need lesson:
Share the learning intention:
We are learning how to use personification in our writing.
What is personification? Do you know any examples? Why use it in our writing?
Brainstorm ideas for describing a windy tree using personification.
Pairs: Select three pictures, write a sentence to describe them using personification. When all groups are completed, pick one sentence to share with the class.
Independent: Test conditions, to show me you understand the learning write three more sentences based on the three pictures left. Pick one sentence to share to the class.
Quality cameo lesson:
Glue cameo into books, read it quietly. First time, teacher reads it aloud while the students read along. Second time, teacher reads it aloud while students highlight personification and other awesome vocab or language features.
Discuss highlighted sections. Why is it good writing?
Share task, in this case to write about a scary or exciting time.
Glue in Task and LI/SC sheet. Students discuss with buddies what they will write about, plan it out using 1. 2. 3. key words for paragraphs.
Silent writing. Teacher roams, fills in feedback and feed forward, on task sheet, based on the first paragraph.
Students share the sentence containing personification at the end, if they want to.
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