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Mentor Text Lesson
TEKS- ELA K 10.D.iv- Students are expected to edit drafts with adult assistance using standard English conventions, including: adjectives, including articles.
For a lesson demonstrating adjectives and how to use them to improve writing, I have chosen to use The Napping House written by Audrey Wood, and illustrated by Don Wood. The first half of the book includes
a new adjective on each page to describe the sleeping state of each person or animal until we get to the flea where it gives an adjective for the flea who is not sleeping. The story is brief and humorous, yet very descriptive to hold the attention of a young audience. We will have read this book several times before using it for a mentor text.
We will begin the lesson by creating an anchor chart for adjectives. I will have categories listed such as: what color, the size, how something sounds, how many, how something behaves, how something looks, how something feels, and how something tastes. I will have several objects up front with me to help the students where needed such as a bell, a rock, a lollipop, Play-Doh, and a pencil. Children can pass the items around and share words with each of the descriptive categories. Having tangible objects to describe will aid in visual and tactile senses. After completing the chart, we will re-read the Napping House as I point out the adjectives that describe each of our characters. We will use at least two pages to
read again without the adjective and then again with so children can decide which one is more interesting. I will write a sentence on the board, “The cat ran.” Asking for words that could describe a cat,
I will re-write the sentence using the added adjective, writing the adjective in red. We could talk about why the cat was running, because he was scared or hungry for example, and re-write the sentence again using that adjective. After our group discussion, the children will move off to individual work. Children will be grouped in small groups of 3 to edit a previous writing. Children will re-write one sentence adding at least one adjective to better describe their character, writing the adjective in red. I will walk the classroom, monitoring students and stepping into groups when necessary for any struggling students. I can point them to words from our anchor chart or ask them questions about their character to help them come up
with an adjective they would like to use.
After an allotted time, students will come back together as a whole group and we will look at several of the student’s examples, reading the sentence before the change, and after.
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