Literacy+Lessons

**Literacy Lessons**

Activity 1: Goals Letters Activity 2: Bio Poems Activity 3: Developing Writer's Notebooks Activity 4: Decorating Writer's Notebooks Activity 5: Writing Excursions Activity 6: What If's/Fierce Wonderings Assignment   Literacy Website Resources: [|Read Aloud Books] [|Literacy Games]
 * Students will establish a letter to themselves about what they would like to accomplish during the course of their academic year.
 * Each student will write a short (guided) poem about themselves. They will then draw an image of themselves to accompany the poem.
 * Students will begin to set up their Writer's Notebooks by writing about their feelings on the first day of school.
 * Students will bring in pictures from home to decorate the outside of their Writer's Notebooks. These pictures will be later used as writing prompts.
 * <span style="color: #dc0c13; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Writing excursions are to introduce formal writing (established paragraphs). The teacher will assign certain topics to establish an initial guideline for students to develop writing structure.
 * <span style="color: #dc0c13; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will compile a list of questions that they are wondering about or have always wondered about. From there they will individually write about those questions within their Writer's Notebook.