Warm up 8/14: Become a TV Commentator – Narrative Quick Write

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Lesson description

✍🏻 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. Become a TV Commentator- Narrative Writing is an essential part of learning to write convincingly. In this Quick Write, students are immersed into the middle of a fierce competition. Students become reporters and share the story in narrative format. Students will receive feedback on their writing and a gamified response letting them know when their story will be published! 🦸 Learning Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to write a descriptive narrative paragraph outlining a competition of your choice. ⏳ Estimated time: 20 minutes 🎯 Feedback: Students receive feedback aligned with the Curipod Narrative Quick Write Rubric. 🛠 To Customize your Lesson: 1. Enter in a type of competition 2. Select your grade level 3. Click Customize now, and your personalized lesson is ready to go! 🚀 Pro-Tips: Customize this lesson with a competition your students know well-- like water bottle flipping, Olympic breakdancing or a Robotics battle! 📍Standards: Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills Standards (TEKS) Core Standards: - TEKS ELAR W.6.11, W.7.11, W.8.11: Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple text genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful. W.6.11A, W.7.11A, W.8.11.A: Compose literary texts such as personal narratives, fiction, and poetry using genre characteristics and craft. Supported Standards: - TEKS ELAR W.6.10, W.7.10, W.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. Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Core Standards: - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3, W.7.3, W.8.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.4, W.7.4, W.8.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Supported Standards: - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.C, W.7.3.C: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.3.C: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence, signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another, and show the relationships among experiences and events. - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.D: Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.3.D, W.8.3.D : Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events. Tags: AI Feedback, Narrative, Reading Comprehension, Prose, Constructed Response, Adventure, Quick Write, On Demand Writing, News Reporting. Informative, Informational