Lesson from: Video Game Survival - Informational Quick Write

erin.durante

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✍🏻 Curipod Quick Writes The Curipod Quick Write series is designed to get students excited about reading and writing. It engages students in simple writing experiences that teach them how to think like writers, build confidence, find their voice, and promote fluency. Curipod Quick Writes are TEKS and CCSS aligned. 🌟 Video Game Survival - Informational Quick Write The students find themselves stuck within a video game world, and they have to write a survival guide to survive. The outcome is based on their response. 🦸 Learning Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to analyze short texts and create a short informational text using relevant evidence. ⏳ Estimated time: 20 minutes 🎯 Feedback: Students receive feedback aligned with the Curipod Informational Quick Write Rubric. 🛠 To Customize your Lesson: 1. Type in your students' favorite video game 2. Select your grade level 3. Add the name of a character in the story 4. Click Customize now to personalize your lesson! 🚀 Pro-Tips: Let your students decide on a video game. 📍Standards: 📜 Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills Standards (TEKS) ELAR 6.5: Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts. ELAR 6.5(F) make inferences and use evidence to support understanding ELAR 6.6: Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. ELAR 6.6(C): use text evidence to support an appropriate response ELAR 6.11: Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. Genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful. ELAR 6.11(B): Compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft. ELAR 6.10 Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. Writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. ELAR 6.10(B) develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by: (i) organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, coherence within and across paragraphs, and a conclusion (R) (ii) developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts and details (R) ELAR 7.5: Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts. ELAR 7.5(F) make inferences and use evidence to support understanding ELAR 7.6: Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. ELAR 7.6(C): use text evidence to support an appropriate response ELAR 7.10 Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. Writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. ELAR 7.10(B) develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by: (i) organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, coherence within and across paragraphs, and a conclusion (R) (ii) developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts, details, and examples (R) ELAR 7.11: Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. Genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful. ELAR 7.11(B): Compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft. ELAR 8.5: Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts. ELAR 8.5(F) make inferences and use evidence to support understanding ELAR 8.6: Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. ELAR 8.6(C): use text evidence to support an appropriate response ELAR 8.10 Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. Writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. ELAR 8.10(B) develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by: (i) organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, coherence within and across paragraphs, and a conclusion (R) (ii) developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts, details, and examples (R) ELAR 8.11: Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. Genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful. ELAR 8.11(B): Compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft. 📜 Common Core State Standards (CCSS) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.1: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.1: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Tags: Quick write, informational writing, adventure, fiction, games, gaming, citing evidence, making inferences, AI feedback, Fortnite, League of Legends, Minecraft,