Elementary School Exercises - Alphasmart NEO 2 User Manual

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Write On! Lesson Categories and Teaching Supplements
El ementary School Exercises
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Manager 2 : Write On Text Files. Look in the folder for each school level to
find the teaching supplement for that level.
This table gives you an overview of the categories and themes available at the
elementary school level. For detailed information about each writing exercise,
consult the ElementarySchoolSupplement.pdf teaching supplement file.
Seasons Fall
Spring
Winter
The Process Character
of Writing Building
1_Elementary School
The Fall folder contains calendar-related activities
with a fall theme. It focuses students' observation on
how autumn changes affect animal and human
behavior. The activities contain inquiries into how
the season looks and feels, and how it affects us. Files
of important people's birthdays and interesting
holidays are used to motivate writing. Fall includes
lots of writing for the seasonally-inspired poet, letter
writer, or storyteller.
The Spring folder uses springtime as a theme to
spark writing activities. Each activity has a specific
focus on a topic and a skill. Two exercises provide
short descriptions of people and/or events as models
for high-interest paragraph writing. Other activity
files in Spring focus on an animal or plant, custom,
legend, or lyric as a takeoff for writing a paragraph, a
character sketch, a poem, a story, or a news report.
Wintertime is the theme for this folder's writing
activities. While the broad theme is Winter, each
activity has a specific focus on a topic and a skill.
Two exercises provide short descriptions of people
and/or events as models for high-interest paragraph
writing. Other activity files for Winter focus on an
animal, plant, custom, or legend as a takeoff for
writing a character sketch, a poem, a story, or a news
report.
The primary method of inquiry used in Character
Building exercises is critical thinking, expressed
through class or small-group discussion and/or
individual writing. While activities include the
writing of anecdote, personal experience, letter, and
verse, the emphasis is always on ideas, not form.
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