Student Published Books

Cue Set: At the beginning of each week, models of exemplary student published books will be read and presented.

Teaching Strategy #1: Teacher will model the use of Chapter 1 graphic organizers on an overhead.

Guided Practice #1: Students will complete their graphic organizers.

Independent Practice # 1: Students will complete rough drafts of their chapter.

Teaching Strategy #2: Teacher will model use of editing/revising checklist.

Guided Practice #2: Students will edit/revise their chapters with peers, spell checkers, dictionaries, and thesauruses.

Independent Practice #2: Students will publish their chapter, which will include an illustration for each corresponding page.

*This writing process will be repeated 3 more times until all chapters have been published.
*If technology is available, stories and illustrations may be published on computers.
*SMARTBoards would be a wonderful tool to model and share writing.