Writing++-+Organization

**Week Two ~** **Organization** **Reading Suggestions** //Organization://
 * Examples (Pages 36-47)
 * Timeline/Checklist for Organization (Page 47)
 * Teaching strategies (Pages 116-120)
 * Teaching of Organization (Pages 92-94)
 * Six point writing guide (Pages 286)
 * Books for Teaching Organization (Pages 202-208)
 * Primary Continuum Organization (page 252)

**Thought questions**
 * How do you teach these topics (organization) in your own practice?
 * What methods do you use?
 * Think of your favorite read aloud books. Which traits do your favorite books reflect most strongly? (question 1 page 231)
 * Think of a favorite read aloud book that could be used to demonstrate organization.
 * Question 2 Discussion (page 83)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Question 1 Activity (page 83) looking at ideas and organization only
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Question 6 Discussion (page 147)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Websites** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] this file takes a long time to load. Looks geared more toward Kindergarten. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] great list of books with lesson plan <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] is a Web 2.0 tool. Students are able to upload images and create a project using audio or video. Viewers are allowed to contribute their thoughts through various modes as well. This can be used to create ePortfolios. Students upload their work and comment on it orally. Parents and other invited guests were also encouraged to comment. Smiles all around!!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">** Books ** (Author and pages in parenthesis refer to lesson association)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Zoom__, Banyai Istvan (Spandel p. 202) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__The Important Book__, Margaret Wise Brown(Spandel p. 203) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__From Head to Toe__, Eric Carle (Spandel P. 204) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__What Do You Want To Do When Something Wants to Eat You?,__ Steve Jenkins (Spandel p. 205) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Big and Little,__ Steve Jenkins (Spandel p. 205) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__The Tortoise and the Hare__, Barry Lane (Spandel p. 206) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__The Red Book__, Barbara, Lehman (Spandel p. 206) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Oink,__ Margie Palatini (Spandel p. 207) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__But Not Quite__, Judy Mullen Schneider Mary Konrad Weeks (Spandel p. 207) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Dr. DeSota__, William Steig (Spandel p. 208) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Rain__, Manya Stojic (Spandel p. 208) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Click Clack Moo__ by Doreen Cronin: This author shows a clear narrative structure with beginning, problem, solution, and ending. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Dear Mr. Blueberry__ by Simon James (Culham, p. 129) :This book is organized around a series of letters. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__The Red Book__ by Barbara Lehman: A good example of how illustrations should support text. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Fly Away Home__ by Eve Bunting <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Alphabet City__ by Stephen T. Johnson (Culham, p. 129) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__DON’T Take Your Snake for a Stroll__ by Karin Ireland: A simple organizational pattern, focusing on one animal at a time <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__The Paperboy__ by Dav Pilkey (Culham, p. 131) :A chronological story <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__The Snowman__ by Raymond Briggs, (Culham, p. 131) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Old Henry__ by Joan W Blos (Culham, p. 130) : How the choice of ending influences the way readers understand the story’s main idea