Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Awareness of Alliteration: Enhancing Writing Through Mentor Texts

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

1

Overview

A writing unit focusing on alliteration allows students to strengthen their phonemic awareness while practicing their developing writing skills. Through the use of mentor texts, students construct a definition of alliteration. Using these texts as models, students experiment with creating alliterative sentences. First, working as a class, students create an alliterative book. While studying additional mentor texts, students generate their own sentences to contribute to a class book using the beginning sounds of their names. At the conclusion of the lesson, students use the mentor texts as examples when independently creating their own alliterative books using the Alphabet Organizer interactive.

    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

    ELA21.1.R3

    Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.1.R3

    Vocabulary

    • Background knowledge
    • Vocabulary
    • Discussion

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Relating experiences through discussions, writing, and reading will help build background knowledge and improve vocabulary.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Connect new concepts to prior experiences to increase background knowledge through discussions, reading, and writing.
    • Construct the meaning of words through discussions, reading, and writing.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Background knowledge can increase by relating experiences to new ideas, topics, and words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
    • Vocabulary will increase by constructing the meaning of words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

    ELA21.1.R5

    Utilize the writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writings in various genres.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.1.R5

    Vocabulary

    • Writing process
    • Plan
    • Draft
    • Revise
    • Edit
    • Publish
    • Genres

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • The writing process steps are to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish.
    • Various genres of writing.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Plan writings in various genres.
    • Draft writings in various genres.
    • Revise writings in various genres.
    • Edit writings in various genres.
    • Publish writings in various genres.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • The writing process is a set of steps that make writing easier.
    • There are different categories, or genres, of writing that can be used for different purposes.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

    ELA21.1.2

    Actively participate in shared reading experiences and collaborative discussions to build background knowledge and learn how oral reading should sound.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.1.2

    Vocabulary

    • Participate
    • Shared reading
    • Background knowledge
    • Oral reading

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • The process of shared reading experiences and collaborative discussions.
    • Shared reading and collaborative discussions can increase their background knowledge.
    • How fluent oral reading sounds.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Participate in shared reading and discussions to build background knowledge and learn new information.
    • Describe how oral reading should sound.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Actively participating in shared reading experiences and collaborative discussions can build their background knowledge.
    • Listening to others read aloud can help improve their oral reading skills.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

    ELA21.1.6

    Demonstrate basic to advanced phonological and phonemic awareness skills in spoken words.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.1.6

    Vocabulary

    • Demonstrate
    • Phonological awareness skills
    • Phonemic awareness skills
    • Spoken words

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Basic to advanced phonological and phonemic awareness skills.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Demonstrate basic to advanced phonological and phonemic awareness skills in spoken words.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Being able to identify and manipulate the sounds in spoken words will help improve their reading, spelling, and writing abilities.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

    ELA21.1.39

    Improve writing, as needed, by planning, revising, and editing with guidance from peer editors, responding to their questions and suggestions.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.1.39

    Vocabulary

    • Improve
    • Writing
    • Planning
    • Revising
    • Editing
    • Peer editors
    • Questions
    • Suggestions

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • The writing process includes planning, revising, and editing, incorporating guidance and suggestions from others.
    • The process for peer editing and review.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Plan, revise, edit, and use suggestions from peers to improve writing.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • To improve writing they need to follow all of the steps of the writing process.
    • Responding to peers' questions and suggestions during the peer editing process will help improve their writing.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

    ELA21.1.43

    Use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing with guidance and support from adults, working both individually and in collaboration with peers.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.1.43

    Vocabulary

    • Digital tools
    • Produce writing
    • Publish writing
    • Individually
    • Collaboration with peers
    • Guidance
    • Support

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Digital tools can be used to produce and publish writing.
    • Writing can be created and published individually or collaboratively.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing.
    • Produce and publish writing individually.
    • Collaborate with peers to produce and publish writing.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Digital tools are available to produce and publish writing.
    • They can produce and publish writing alone or in collaboration with others.
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