Journey Through Words: Writing A Recount Of WW1 Events.pdf

The Literacy Learning Journey focuses on writing a recount about WW1 events using "War Game" by Michael Foreman and "One Boy’s War" by Lynne Huggins-Cooper, with hooks from WW2 posters. The purpose is to engage and inform readers about the realities of being a soldier in WW1.

Spelling Patterns: Focus on suffixes altering meanings, capital letters for proper nouns, plurals, apostrophes for possession and contraction.

Gems Focus: During shared reading, emphasis is placed on defining, exploring, and inferring.

Phase 1: Writing Explorers
- Hook: Persuasive WW2 posters.
- Activities: Learn about Michael Foreman, discuss poster purposes/impacts, identify main text points, explore organizational features, analyze author's language choices, collect technical vocabulary, create vocabulary thermometers, and use figurative language to visualize texts.
- Writing Skills: Use lenses for recounting events, practice direct speech, explore figurative language (similes/metaphors/personification/pathetic fallacy), differentiate sentence types, understand punctuation effects, and apply relative clauses.

Phase 2: Planning Writing
- Apply explored vocabulary.
- Organize writing structure for recounts/letters.
- Identify applicable writing skills/lenses.
- Create writing plans.

Phase 3: Authors
- Draft using plans from Phase 1.
- Use short writes as support.
- Utilize learning walls and respond to feedback, applying editing/improving skills.

Guided Reading Links: World at War.