Second+Grade+January

=January at a Glance=

Review all Writing Traits in the Context of Descriptive Writing and Poetry
 * ==Crafting / Writing Traits:== || ==Writing Process:== || ==Grammar:== || ==Genres / Products:== || ==Suggested Assessments and Assessment Tools== ||
 * ===Writing Traits===
 * Ideas / Content
 * Emphasize poetry speaks to the senses
 * Details
 * Voice
 * Music of poetry
 * Model how poets invigorate their poems with poetic language and voice.
 * Organization
 * Poetry Forms
 * Word Choice
 * Shake children free of mundane and ordinary language
 * Model conveying strong feelings by creating images with precise words. Shake children free of mundane and ordinary language
 * Model matching words that exactly match what a poet is trying to say, using beautiful, precise and descriptive language
 * Model artful language to convey a sound, an image, an observation and an idea.
 * Model how poets compare feelings to something else ("Poets don't say it plain.") Similes and Metaphors.
 * Model that poets stay with and develop their comparisons.
 * Sentence Fluency
 * Music of Poetry
 * Conventions
 * Punctuating Poetry
 * Presentation
 * Spacing
 * Form
 * Illustration?

Review all steps in the writing process in the Context of Descriptive Writing and Poetry
 * Create a learning environment for exploration and immersion.**
 * Read poems aloud. Model rereading making your voice support the meaning of the poem.
 * Poetry Stations
 * Imagery Station -- Read poems with beautiful imagery, draw or paint with mind's eye
 * Collection of Favorites Station -- Place a variety of poems in the station for students to select their own favorites and create their own poetry anthologies.
 * Picture Books in Poetic Language -- Place a variety of picture books for students to pull out their favorite literary lines to be written on sentence strips or bookmarks.
 * Everyday Objects Station -- Place ordinary items such as rocks, seashells, manipulatives, etc. for students to observe and investigate properties. || ===Writing Process===

Power Ps // (Writes with sufficient detail. Supports all other forms of writing) //
 * Plan
 * Audience / Purpose
 * Appealing to the senses
 * Meant to be read aloud
 * Ideas Content
 * Model how to choose a topic involving strong feelings and concrete details to use in writing poetry.
 * Model how to write seeing everyday objects with concrete details in fresh ways (put in prose format first)
 * Organize -- different forms of poetry
 * Model how to change observational notes into poems by experimenting with format (go from descriptive prose paragraph to a poem)
 * Model finding a bit from a previous writing that deserves to be kept and made into a poem
 * Model turning a story like draft into a poem
 * Poetry patterns -- Introduce repetition and other structures in poems
 * couplets
 * Package -- Draft
 * POP!
 * Model checking each word and doing everything possible to "fix" words that need more attention.
 * Poetic language
 * Alliteration
 * Repetition
 * Similes
 * Metaphors
 * Sentence Fluency -- rhythm and rhyme
 * Polish
 * Read aloud listen for natural breaks
 * Forced breaks / pauses
 * Publish with Pizzazz!
 * Create a poetry portfolio. || ===Punctuation in Poetry===
 * Capitalization
 * Commas
 * End Marks || **Descriptive Writing**
 * Use descriptive prose writing as a jumping off place for writing poetry
 * Compare poetry to prose
 * Describes someone or something clearly.
 * Uses precise, vivid sensory details.
 * Includes other relevant details.

// (Writes to stir an emotional or sensory response) //
 * Poetry**
 * Introduce poetry as writing that appeals to the senses
 * Selects topics that inspire or promote strong feelings.
 * Utilizes “juicy” words that prompt strong sensory or emotional responses.
 * Attempts to utilize techniques that form poetry such as rhythm, repetition, onomatopoeia, rhyme, use of similes and / or metaphors, and deliberate line breaks.


 * Poetry Forms for Second Grade**
 * Acrostic -- In an acrostic poem the letters of the subject are written down (vertically) to form the word of choice. Next to each letter, the poetic statement is written horizontally to express the subject in innovative ways.
 * Alliteration -- When the beginning of words start with the same consonant or vowel sounds in stressed syllables and the words are close together the effect is called alliteration.
 * Alphabet Poetry -- A poem consisting of words on a topic beginning with each letter or each sound of the alphabet.
 * Definition Poem -- A poem where the poet begins with the question "What is ____" and defines the topic with a list of descriptive qualities which represent a summary or a definition of the topic.
 * Diamanate -- Diamante is the Italian word for diamond. This poetic form takes the form of a diamond when it is completed.
 * Choose a one word topic (noun)
 * Use two describing words (adjectives)
 * Use three action words (verbs or ing words)
 * Use a four word phrase capturing some feeling about the topic.
 * Use three action words (verbs or ing words)
 * Use two describing words (adjectives)
 * Use a one word or hyphenated synonym for the noun used in the first line.
 * Metaphors and Similes
 * Onamatopoeia || **Crafting / Writing Traits**
 * Student writing
 * 6 +1 Traits Rubrics for Descriptive Writing
 * Ideas, Word Choice Rubrics for Poems


 * Writing Process**
 * Student writing and drafts for both descriptive writing and poetry


 * Grammar**
 * Student writing
 * Worksheets / Quizzes


 * Geners / Products**
 * Student Writing
 * Poetry Rubrics for specific types of Poems to be introduced in second grade (TBD) ||