WritingFiction

**Language Arts Grade 4**  **Unit 2 :** Writing Fiction  **Purposes:** Apply strategies for prewriting, writing, and revising fiction texts.  **Overarching Theme:** Diversity

 **Description:**  The focus of this unit is on writing fiction pieces. Students study the elements of fiction through a mentor text; character development, setting and its role in the story, initiating events, plot, climax and resolution. They carefully consider each of these elements as they plan and write their own fiction piece.

Desired Results
 * Established Goals:**

 **Common Core State Standards:**

 3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
 * Text Types and Purposes **


 * Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
 * Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
 * Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
 * Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
 * Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.


 * Production and Distribution of Writing **

5. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting.


 * **Understandings** Writers read like writers. || **Essential Questions** Where do writers get their ideas? ||

//The student will know...// || **Skills:** //The students will be able to...// ||
 * **Knowledge:**


 * Content Vocabulary ||

Assessment Evidence
 * **Performance Tasks**

Fiction Piece || **Formative Assessments**

Student Interest Surveys Fall Writing Prompt Blue Ribbon Writing 1 Writing Samples Grade 3 Prompt Writing Conference Notes


 * Summative Assessments**

Writing Prompt

Reflection || Learning Plan Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin Story Elements Layered Look Book
 * Student Self-Assessments**
 * Resources**
 * Mentor Texts**

This is done with Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, but any text with strong developed fictional elements can be used. ||
 * ** Reading and Studying the Mentor Text: **
 * **Lesson One: What do we know about the characters so far?** After reading the first two chapters, Students record the main character's internal and external attributes. They also record any minor characters and a few words to describe them. ||  ||
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