By: Jessica Herrmann
Mentor Text Selection:
Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard, Illustrated by James Marshall
Writing Skill: Students will examine this mentor text and use it as a model for writing a story with declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences. Students will learn that they can use mentor texts to develop their own writing pieces.
Connection to Six Traits: Sentence Fluency- Incorporating sentence variety within a story. Conventions- Knowing which appropriate punctuation marks go with each sentence type.
Miss Nelson is Missing is a book about a teacher, Miss Nelson, who has a rowdy bunch of students. The students think that Miss Nelson is missing when the mean Miss Viola Swamp comes as their substitute. Miss Swamp is a strict teacher that gives a lot of homework. Miss Nelson returns and the students are no longer misbehaving. Little did they know, Miss Swamp was really Miss Nelson in disguise!
Purpose for Mentor Text Selection: Students find this book fun and entertaining. This book contains many examples of declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences. It serves as a perfect example for students to use sentence variety and dialogue in their stories. It will help students to see how they can create stories that contain various types of sentences.
Lesson Plan:
***Please note it is important that students are exposed to the book first for enjoyment before being asked to study the text. The teacher must find an opportunity prior to the lesson to read the book to students so that they can enjoy it. Then it can be used as a reread for students to examine how the author wrote the different types of sentences.***Students should have prior knowledge of quotation marks, periods, exclamation points, and question marks.
- The lesson will begin with a discussion of declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences. Students will learn that declarative sentences are those that form a statement and usually end with a period. They will learn that interrogative sentences are those that form a question and end with a question mark. In addition, they will learn that exclamatory sentences are those that show powerful emotion and end with an exclamation point. The teacher will guide their thinking as students share different examples for each type of sentence. The teacher will record their ideas on chart paper. This will let the teacher know which students have some background knowledge of sentence types.
- Next, the teacher will explain the idea of using an author’s work as an example for writing. Also, the teacher will explain to students that they will be examining Miss Nelson is Missing to see examples of a writing piece that contains declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences. The students will also see that this story contains some dialogue between characters. The teacher will explain to the students that they will be writing their own fiction stories that contain these different types of sentences. Explaining this will help students know why they are studying this mentor text.
- The teacher will read the story to the students. (As noted above, this should be a reread of the story) At the end of every two pages, the students will share sentences that were used and which type they were. The teacher will record these sentences on the list they started earlier as a class. After reading, there will be another discussion of each sentence type, what those sentences look like, and what appropriate punctuation mark to use with each sentence.
- The assignment will be explained to students. Students will develop a fiction story that contains at least two sentences for each type. Appropriate punctuation should be used for each type of sentence. Students may develop any story they want as long as it is school appropriate.
Possible Lesson Extensions:
-Students can read Miss Nelson is Back and Miss Nelson Has a Field Day to find examples of the three sentence types.
-Students can write a piece comparing two of Harry Allard’s stories.
Second Grade Ohio Academic Content Standards, Benchmarks, and Indicators for Writing:
Writing Processes Standard
Indicator:
6. Use a range of complete sentences, including declarative, interrogative and exclamatory.
Writing Conventions Standard
Benchmark:
C. Use conventions of punctuation in written work.
Indicator:
8. Use periods, question marks and exclamation points as endpoints correctly.
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