MIDDLE YEARS WRITING PLANNER

Focus Areas

7/11/2016

Text Type:

Punctuation:

Grammar:

Spelling:

Writer's Notebook Seed:

Procedure (Science Experiements)

Editing to remove 'and'

Parts of sentence

Demon Words? List 13

Mad Scientist

Learning Intention: We are learning to plan, write and publish a procedure with correct structure, grammar and punctuation features.

Student Levels
Focus Skills

Below Year 3
Capitals & Fullstops on dotpoints
Diagrams

Low Year 3
Structure of a procedure
Labelled Diagrams

High Year 3 / Low Year 4

Multiple sentences on a dotpoint

High Year 4
Small paragraphs per dotpoint

Year 5 & above

References & Additional Links

Session

Monday, November 7, 2016

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Friday, November 11, 2016

Mini Lesson

Mini Lesson (10 mins)

Mini Lesson (10 mins)

Mini Lesson (10 mins)

Mini Lesson (10 mins)

Mini Lesson (10 mins)

Focus
Explicit Teaching

Resources

Writing Seed

Editing to remove 'and' with a conjunction

Introduction to Science Procedures: Layout

Procedure: Hypothesis (I think), Diagrams, etc Procedure: Conclusion (I learned that)

Use the writing seed to brainstorm ideas

for this weeks writing, demonstate to
class. Focus on ideas for procedures

Explain that science experiments are

written up like procedures. Watch
'Baking Soda' and demonstrate how to
write up this experiment

Explain to students what a hypothesis is.

Write up examples of hypothesis on the
the board for a basic experiment

Reading Eggs - Information Texts Toolkit

Write up a piece of writing with too many

'ands'. Demonstrate 1 'and' per sentence.
How to remove and fix capitals and
fullstops. Create a list of conjunctions
and add to writing piece.
Conjunctions

Reading Eggs - Information Texts Toolkit

What a diagram should look like

Writing Seed Proformers

Parts of sentence

Science Experiment Write Up Example

Science Experiment Write Up Example

Writing Seed Ideas

Student Activity
Activity
Rersources
Focus Students

Student Activity (30 mins)

Finish a brainstorm around 'Mad
Scientist'
Free writing when task complete

After completing (real or imagined)

experiment. Discuss how to write up a
conclusion. What did you learn from the
experiement. Write example on the
board.
Science Experiment Write Up Example

Youtube: Baking Soda experiment

Student Activity (30 mins)

Students to brainstorm experment ideas
Free writing when task complete

Mad Scientist

Student Activity (30 mins)

Students to continue to write up an
experiment
Free writing when task complete

Student Activity (30 mins)

Free writing when task complete

Student Activity (30 mins)

Free writing when task complete

Procedure Example Text

Procedure Scaffold

All students

Below Year 3 Skilled Students

Below Year 3 Skilled Students

Emily Haywood,

MPB

Year 4 Skilled Students

Sean, Riley,

Year 5 & above

Angeth, Serena

Sharing

Sharing (10 mins)

Sharing (10 mins)

Sharing (10 mins)

Sharing (10 mins)

Sharing (10 mins)

Sharing Focus
Aus Vels

Voice Project, Clear Speech, Eye Contact

Voice Project, Clear Speech, Eye Contact

Voice Project, Clear Speech, Eye Contact

Voice Project, Clear Speech, Eye Contact

Voice Project, Clear Speech, Eye Contact