Writing+Genres

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 * // __ Writing Genres  __ // **
 * **Genre ** || **Purpose **  || **Activities **  ||
 * **Descriptive Writing ** || Students observe carefully and choose precise language. They take notice of sensory details and create comparisons (metaphors and similes) to make their [|writing] more powerful.  || * Character sketches
 * Comparisons
 * Descriptive essays
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Descriptive sentences
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Found poems ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Expository Writing **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students collect and synthesize information. This writing is objective; reports are the most common type. Students use expository writing to give directions, sequence steps, compare one thing to another, explain causes and effects, or describe problems and solutions.  || * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> [|Alphabet] books
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Autobiographies
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Directions
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Essays
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Posters
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Reports
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Summaries ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Journals and Letters **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students write to themselves and to specific, known audiences. Their writing is personal and often less formal than other genres. They share news, explore new ideas, and record notes. Students learn the special formatting that letters and envelopes require.  || * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Business letters
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Courtesy letters
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Double-entry journals
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">E-mail messages
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Friendly letters
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Learning logs
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Personal journals ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Narrative Writing **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students retell familiar stories, develop sequels for stories they have read, write stories about events in their own lives, and create original stories. They include a beginning, middle, and end in the narratives to develop the plot and characters.  || * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Original short stories
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> [|Personal narratives]
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Retellings of stories
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sequels to stories
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Story scripts ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Persuasive Writing **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Persuasion is winning someone to your viewpoint or cause using appeals to logic, moral character, and emotion. Students present their position clearly and support it with examples and evidence.  || * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Advertisements
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Book and movie reviews
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Letters to the editor
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Persuasive essays
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Persuasive letters ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Poetry Writing **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students create word pictures and [|play] with rhyme and other stylistic devices as they create poems. Through their wordplay, students learn that poetic language is vivid and powerful but concise and that poems can be arranged in different ways on a page.  || * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Acrostic poems
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Color poems
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Free verse [|Haiku] “I Am” poems
 * <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Poems for two voices ||