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Expressive Writing

TITLE:  Expressive writing

GRADE: 3 – 10

MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED:  shoes…20-60 minutes

PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION – A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy:  Look at your shoes – what would they say if they could talk?  Invite statements.  Review agreements!

IDENTIFY THE OBJECTIVES:

Content Standard: Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.

Collaborative:  Thinking constructively, valuing diversity, assessing improvement

Personal:  Reflecting on experience and sharing personal information

IDENTIFY THE STRATEGY: Shoe ‘n Tell

Follow as written and/or add these suggested modifications.  Once student have shared what their shoes would say or tell, have a discussion about personification and other literary terms (alliteration, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, etc.) and then re-visit what was shared and identify literary devices.

Next, have students write for a designated amount of time, on a topic of their (or your) choice, related to their shoe and/or what they just shared.

You can just let them write and then discuss what that was like…or you can have them write with specific requirements (think: literary devices).

Have students share – by exchanging papers, reading aloud to one another, volunteer to read to the whole class, etc.

Basically this is a fun, yet productive exercise in writing!

REFLECTION:

Content:            What did you learn?  How was this writing process easy or difficult?  What was your thinking process?

Collaborative/social:  What differences or similarities did you see or hear?  Why is valuing diversity and important skill?

Personal:  What did you like about this exercise in writing?  What made it easy?  Difficult?

PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR APPRECIATION:  Invite statements

AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:  Have students exchange papers and each write a positive comment on the other’s paper.

LEARNING COMPONENTS

►Group Development Process

►Cognitive Theory

Multiple Intelligences

Cooperative Learning

►Constructivism

Reflective Practice

Authentic Assessment

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