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Date: ______________________________________________________

Purpose: Review POW & Story Parts Reminder; Support It; Wean off Graphic Organizer; Transfer to Story Starter

Objectives: review POW and story parts reminder; **reinforce transfer; move toward independent performance, wean off graphic organizer

Materials needed: Mnemonic chart, WWW graphic organizer, paper, pencils, lined paper, student folders, story starters: rock & Cassie, self-instructions sheets, each student's graph

_____I. Test to see if the students remember POW and the story parts reminder: do it out loud to save time. It is essential that each student memorize these. If students are having trouble with this, spend a few minutes practicing it. Tell the students you will test them on it each day to make sure they have it.

_____II. **Review the meaning of transfer briefly. Ask students to report back on using all or parts of POW and/or WWW in other classes or for other writing tasks. If necessary, brainstorm together again some classes or other writing tasks they could use both POW and WWW for, being sure to note that we should use POW with WWW whenever we use WWW. Other writing tasks could be: book reports, letters to friends, reports on special topics, writing for a school newsletter, writing about something that happened to you or a special event, and so on. Briefly remind them that for some tasks, like writing a report, all parts of the WWW trick might not be right to use - so what could we do? (Change WWW to fit the kind of report we need to write). You fill in their "I transferred my strategies"chart and then ask them to report on helping their partner and fill in their "I helped my partner"chart. Put a star next to each thing you record.

_____III. Remind the students that they won't usually have a story parts reminder page with them when they have to write stories, so they can make their own notes on blank paper. Show them how to write down the reminder at the top of the page:

POW

WWW, What = 2, How = 2

and then have them make a space on the paper for notes for each part.

_____IV. Collaborative writing - Support It. Ask each student to get out their self-statements list. Put out the story starters: rock & Cassie the dog. Discuss - how is this different? What can we transfer - yes, POW plus WWW still works!

This time, students should do as much as possible independently - help only if needed. Students make notes on the paper they filled in. Students should go through each of the following processes - each student can write their own story using their own notes:

- "Remember that the first letter in POW is P - Pick my Idea. Refer students to their self-statements for creativity or thinking free.

-The second letter in POW is O- ORGANIZE my NOTES. I will use my story parts reminder to help me. I will use this page to make my notes and organize my notes. Review - what should my goal be? I want to write a good story - a good story has all seven parts, makes sense, is fun for me to write and for others to read. After students have generated notes for all the story parts say - remember to look back at my notes and see if I can add more notes for my story parts - help them actually do this if necessary. Remind them also to look for more ideas for good word choice or million dollar words - help them do this if necessary.

-The last letter in POW is W - Write and Say More. Encourage and remind them to start by saying "What is it I have to do here? I have to write a good story - a good story has all 7 parts and makes sense." I can write my story and think of more good ideas or million dollar words as I write. Help students as much as they need to do this, but try to let them do as much as they can alone. Encourage them to use other self-statements of their choice while they write.

_____V. Have each student read aloud and then graph their story - Ask each student to determine- does their story have all 7 parts - then fill in graph. Reinforce them for reaching 7.

If students are not ready for independent performance at this point- they are only ready if they have done this very independently - plan to repeat this lesson again, using new story starters.

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_____VI. Lesson wrap-up if you are going to repeat this lesson:

A. Have each student put their work and charts in their folder.

B. Remind of POW and story parts reminder test again next time.

C. **Remind them that they will fill in the transfer chart again next time.

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_____VI. Lesson wrap-up if the post test will be next:

Announce that next time will be like a test - they will do a story completely on their own to see how well they've learned - they should use POW and the WWW reminder.

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