Editing marks lesson

Write the editing marks on the board and have students discuss and show which ones they know.

Have students guess what the other marks mean.

discuss their true meaning.

Hand out the editing marks sheet

Have students come up with two sentences that are written wrong.  

Pass the sentences to a partner and have the partner correct the sentences using the editing marks. 

Select a few students to share their incorrect sentences and how they corrected them with the editing marks.

Biography Unit

This is my unit plan that I will be using for my EdTPA requirements. The unit is spread out over a week- week and a half time.

I started the unit out by discussing bio poems. We had done a bio poem about themselves the day earlier so they would have some prior knowledge to do this assignment. I used this bio poem template for the bio poem about themselves and tweaked a few things for when I used it for the biography unit. For this lesson I read a short biography to the students and then printed out copies of the biography