This cluster includes the following access points.
| Access Point Number |
Access Point Title |
| LAFS.1.W.2.AP.5a: | With guidance and support, use feedback on a topic (e.g., additional text, drawings, visual displays, labels) to strengthen writing. |
| LAFS.1.W.2.AP.5b: | With guidance and support, use feedback (e.g., elaborate on story elements) to strengthen narrative writing. |
| LAFS.1.W.2.AP.5c: | With guidance and support, use feedback (e.g., drawings, visual displays, labels) to strengthen persuasive writing. |
| LAFS.1.W.2.AP.5d: | With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from others to strengthen writing. |
| LAFS.1.W.2.AP.5e: | With guidance and support from adults, work with a peer to evaluate a permanent product. |
| LAFS.1.W.2.AP.6a: | With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools (e.g., word processing, Internet) to produce and publish writing, including collaborating with peers. |
| LAFS.1.W.2.AP.6b: | With guidance and support from adults, use a writing template, tool or mentor text to develop writing skills. |
Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.
| Name |
Description |
| Flower Power Flower Company MEA & STEAM* Activity: | This STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) lesson has been designed around a Model-Eliciting Activity.
The Flower Power MEA provides students with an real world problem in which they must work as a team to design a plan to select the best flower arrangement for a special event. The resource was primarily designed as an MEA so the time and teacher instructions are based on the MEA format. The additional activities will take several hours of instruction but include watching and discussing a video about the parts of plants, reading a book, and discussing the art in the book as well as additional art by the book author/illustrator. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| I Can Fix It With Your Help!: | In this lesson, students will listen to an informational text about an animal and critique a sample expository paragraph by giving suggestions about how to improve the sample writing. Students will then read an informational text about an animal of their choosing and write an expository paragraph about the animal. They will present their writing to the class and take suggestions from classmates to improve their writing. Students will also revise their writing through use of suggestions given by their peers. |
| Elements of a Short Story: | In this lesson, students will identify story elements. The students will also create a story map within a group and then work independently to write their own narrative using the story elements. They will edit and revise their narratives with a partner and after teacher conferencing. |
| Feeling the Fall: | Feeling the Fall is a lesson that incorporates fluency, the five senses, and writing all in one. Students will work cooperatively to perform a play on fall, practicing fluency, accuracy, and expression. Then students will explore the fall season using their senses, integrating science standards into academic standards reading. Finally, students will have the opportunity to write about the fall season and publish their writing using technology. |
| Telescopes and Constellations: | In this two-session lesson, students will use a real telescope to observe how objects appear closer in an artificial night sky. Students will also create a telescope model that will represent how a specific constellation looks in the night sky. The students will be using a Science Journal or "My Space Book" to make a pictorial record of their findings. |
| Text Detectives Investigate Meat Eating Plants: | In this lesson, students will identify the text features of non-fiction books and use several informational texts on meat-eating plants to answer text dependent questions. Students will become "text detectives" and learn how to use the text to find the evidence to prove that their answers to questions are right. The students will learn to use evidence from informational texts to write explanatory paragraphs. |
