Writing Blocks: 1st 6 Weeks 9th and 10th Grade Writing Program

This is the 1st 6 weeks of a year long common-core aligned interactive notebook writing program for 9th and 10th grades that improves student writing through the deliberate practice of sentence imitation (generative grammar). Each day, the teacher guides students through a scaffolded imitation of a sentence.

At the end of the week, students will use the sentence patterns they’ve experimented with to construct a paragraph. At the end of the six weeks, students will construct an essay using a variety of sentence patterns that they’ve experimented with.

Each of the six week sections deals with a different type of writing: Narrative 1 (Descriptive), Narrative 2 (Plot and Dialogue), Explanatory 1 (Develop Facts and Details), Explanatory 2 (Explain With Quotes and Graphics), Argumentative 1 (Point and Counter Point), and Argumentative 2 (Making Your Point With Reason and Evidence).

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Included in This Program (For Each 6 Weeks):

A student instruction mini book and envelope

Paragraphs and essay rubrics

A PowerPoint and cloze notes explaining the type of writing we are practicing

Five guided sentence maps with foldable shapes to go on top for each 6 weeks

A PowerPoint for each week to guide the students through their sentence imitation

A paragraph planning map with foldable shapes for each week

A PowerPoint and cloze notes explaining how to transform a paragraph into an essay

An essay planning foldable graphic organizer for the writing form under focus for the six weeks

Sample answers for each map (with picture examples for the first week), as well as the paragraph and the final descriptive narrative essay

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