Present your story to the class. Show the pictures. Speak clearly. Use gestures. Checklist Is my story clear? Do I use the correct words? Do I need to add words? Is the spelling correct? Is the capitalization correct? Is the punctuation correct? Storyboard Plan Look at your notes. Write a draft of your story. A draft is not perfect. Put your ideas in sentences. Review what you learned. Choose a class. Plan your story. Write notes in a storyboard. Reread your draft. Look at the Checklist. Do you need to make changes? Rewrite your story. Add pictures or photos. Draft Revise Present PUT IT ALL TOGETHER Unit 1 | forty-one 41 Unit 1 | 41 UNIT 1 / CONNECT TO WRITING . | DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Group students having difficulty with the writing task. Write a story that demonstrates going through the writing process. Make your thinking visible as you model each step. After you model your own example, you may still need to provide ELs sentence frames to complete the task. Their stories can have simple structures with short sentences. Amplify Encourage students to include new words in their story so they can push their linguistic skills. Provide other options for students to present their writing. For example, they can create a video or digital presentation. Formative Assessment • Read and talk: Checking with a friend Have a friend read your story. You read your friend’s story. Use the checklist for your friend’s story. Your friend uses the checklist for your story. Compare your checklists. Plan • Read aloud the sentences for Plan and elaborate. Say: Before you write a story, you organize your ideas. A storyboard can help. • Say: You can take notes in a storyboard. Think about what you said you know about school. Think about a class you can write about. Pedro writes about his science class. Write your class in the first box. Think about what happens in that class. In the model, the students and teachers meet. Who is in the classroom in your story? What do they do? Look back at the science, social studies, math, and electives pages for some ideas. Write some words or phrases to use in your story. Draft Read aloud the sentences for Draft and elaborate. Say: Next, take ideas from your notes and write the story. Change the words and phrases into sentences. Do not worry about spelling or punctuation. You are creating a draft of your story. A draft is not perfect. You can fix your draft in the next step. Checklist • Go over the Checklist and ensure that students understand all the terms. • Say: Your story is not finished. You need to make changes after you read and think about the checklist. You need to revise your story. Rewrite and add pictures or photos. Revise Read aloud the sentences for Revise and elaborate. Say: Read the draft of your story silently. Read it aloud. Look at the checklist and think about each sentence. Present Read aloud the sentences for Present and elaborate. Say: The reason we write is to communicate. You will present your story to the class. PRACTICE 71
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