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Check the Deck includes eight units covering the major writing
modes, plus literature-based writing and a research unit. Each unit
includes four components leading up to a process-oriented assignment.
Oral language activities, sentence combining techniques, a functional
composing rule, and writing style activities serve as mini-lessons
before each prompt. A scoring rubric, time sheet, and checklist sheet
are provided for each writing prompt.
Larry Lewin, a teacher in the Eugene, Oregon School District, authored Check.
Key Features:
- Oral language activities. Students have fun working with color
words, flexible words, creating new names, role-playing and argument,
building a character, and brainstorming facts.
- Sentence combining drills play an important part of each chapter.
Students practice combining with color words, glue words – before,
after, when, because – compound subjects, predicates, and compound
sentences.
- Composing Rules – punctuating a series, punctuating glue words,
recognizing fragments, correcting fragments, using quotation marks, and
indenting paragraphs – are taught functionally in each chapter.
- Writing with style exercises encourage students to use similies, personification, voice in writing, alliteration, and new words.
- The process approach – prewriting, writing, rewriting, and publishing – is taught.
- The writing topics are motivational and geared to the interest
level of young writers. Writers describe a neighborhood place, solve a
problem with super animal, play the role of a detective, write a pet
argument letter, narrate an “owie,” explain how to become a successful
writer, write about their own “terrible, horrible, very bad day,” and
report on a planet or a dinosaur.
- An illustrated grading sheet is provided for each prompt. It
corresponds to the student learning objectives listed in each chapter.
- Student think sheet (graphic organizers) help students focus on the content.
- Our famous SOS sheet helps young writers revised by “seeing” their “mistakes.”
- Publishing activities range from creating an advertising
brochure, to reading aloud the detective report, to mailing home the
pet argument letter, to having the librarian display the report.
Scope and Sequence
Oral Language:
Colorful words
Flexible words
Creating new names – sniglets
Role-playing an argument
Building a character
Brainstorming facts
Reading aloud – all stages of the writing process
Sentence Combining – Sentence Fluency:
Combining with colorful words
Combining with glue words
Combining with compound subjects
Combining with compound predicates
Compound sentences
Combining with compound sentences
Combining facts into sentences
The Writing Process:
Describing a neighborhood place
Problem-solving with a super hero
Predicting an outcome – detective report
Persuading – pet argument letter
Narrating about a personal accident
Explaining how to be a successful writer
Writing about literature
Researching on dinosaur or planets
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