HOW CAN WE BECOME WRITERS?

HOW CAN WE BECOME WRITERS?

FINAL OUTPUT

ABOUT OUT TEACHING UNIT

Sant Jordi school + Pins del Vallès School- Third graders + fifth graders- “How can we become writers”? - Sant Jordi: patron saint + national festivity- Provide the learner with an authentic and meaningful context for communication in English

Physical book that would be later scanned and shared with the other school in a virtual library.

And then, what?

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CELEBRATION OF A POETRY CONTEST The participants from one school will vote the books they most enjoyed about the other, and the other way around.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

• To produce narrative texts in English.
• To demonstrate oral and written understanding of short stories in English.
• To recognize and construct simple sentences in English.
• To identify the structure of a narrative text.
• To recognise the meaning of some action verbs.
• To design the cover of a narrative text using the digital competence (Canvas).
• To collaborate between schools to achieve the final product.

• Their final product contains the wh- words.
• Fill the mind map of the story they become experts, and the one they are writing.

• Construction of simple sentences in English.
• Differentiation of the three parts in their story.
• Use of these verbs in their body part of their story.
• Respect towards the ICT material and appropriate use of the digital competence.
• Teacher observation in participation, behaviour and group work.

TEACHING AREAS

ENGLISH CURRICULUM

• Literature
• English
• Arts & Crafts
• Digital Education

Sant Jordi school

Pins del Vallès school

• Introductory sentences for stories.
• Weather.
• Date.
• Moods.
• Age.
• Seasons.
• Verb to be.
• Present simple.
• Sentence structure.
• Wh- questions.

• Introductory sentences for stories.
• Ending sentences for stories.
• Connectors.
• Past simple.
• Sentence structure.
• Wh- questions.

FIRST SESSION

FIRST SESSION

OBJECTIVE: To understand what the project will be about.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Introduction of the project (why?).2. Pocket calendar.3. Video introduction (who, where, how, what).4. Recording a video.5. DOL + passport behaviour

OBJECTIVE: To understand what the project will be about.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Introduction of the project (why?).2. Pocket calendar.3. Video introduction (who, where, how, what).4. Recording a video.5. DOL.

SECOND SESSION

SECOND SESSION

OBJECTIVE: To recognise the WH- word in a story.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar.2. Watch the video from the other school (+ answer).3. Plickers: test previous knowledge about narrative texts.4. Groups distribution.5. Being experts of a book + mind map.6. Characters jars.7. DOL.

OBJECTIVE: To recognis the parts of a story and its characteristics.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar.2. Watch the video from the other school (+ answer).3. Groups distribution.4. Identify the WH words of a story.5. Being experts of a book + mind map.6. Characters jars.7. DOL.

THIRD SESSION

THIRD SESSION

OBJECTIVE: To recognise the structure of the stories.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar.2. Story on the blackboard and identification of the three parts.3. Fix the structure of our books.4. Introduction of our story --> (where, who, when).5. DOL.

OBJECTIVE: To work on the verbs in the past.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar.2. Classification of verbs in the past.3. Discussion to find out the rule.4. Board game (orally).5. DOL.

FOURTH SESSION

FOURTH SESSION

OBJECTIVE: To recognise the body of a story.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar.2. In the stories, there is always a problem (what?). Identification of a problem in a story (video format). 3. Write the draft of their BODY part.4. Exit ticket.

OBJECTIVE: To recognise the structure of a story.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar.2. Analysis of a story.3. Fix the structure of our stories.4. Introduction of the stories.5. DOL.

FIFTH SESSION

FIFTH SESSION

OBJECTIVE: To recognise the structure of the stories.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar.2. Brainstorming: words they may want to use in their stories.3. Fill a template with their BODY part (scaffolding).4. DOL.

OBJECTIVE: To recognise the body of a story.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar.2. Video of a story: identify the body.3. Body of the stories.4. DOL.

SIXTH SESSION

SIXTH SESSION

OBJECTIVE: To recognise the characteristics of an ending.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar.2. Finish the body part.3. Investigating canva.4. Different endings for a story: with the same books we were experts about, write the ending in the blackboard.5. DOL.

OBJECTIVE: To recognise the characteristics of an ending.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar.2. Ways of ending stories.3. Ending of the stories.4. Revision.5. DOL.

SEVENTH SESSION

SEVENTH SESSION

OBJECTIVE: To make appropriate use of an ICT tool.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar.2. Fill in a template writing our ending part of the story.3. Canva's time: finish off the cover.4. DOL.

OBJECTIVE: To finish off all the stories.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar2. Finish the stories.3. Design of the cover (Canva).4. DOL.

FINAL SESSION

FINAL SESSION

OBJECTIVE: To create their final product and peer assess the results.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar.2. Finish canva design and last-minute retouch.3. Peer assessment between group members.4. Plickers (final assessment): "What have we learnt?"

OBJECTIVE: To make appropriate use of an ICT tool.

ACTIVITIES : 1. Recap + pocket calendar.2. Canva: create the cover of the stories.3. Peer assessment between group members.

ASSESSMENT

Teacher: behaviour + content + DOL (4 dimensions)Students: Peer assessment (behaviour + content)

CLASSROOM ORGANISATION

Mixing: - WC-GW (balanced)-PW-IW