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New Year's Resolution Writing

This document provides a lesson plan for teaching students in grades 1-5 how to write New Year's resolutions. It includes instructions for a pre-writing activity where students discuss resolutions and fill out a graphic organizer to plan their resolutions. It then guides students through a drafting process where they create a layered book with flaps to outline their resolution, potential problems, people to help, and strategies. Students write a draft, proofread, edit, and publish their resolution writing. The lesson concludes with students sharing their finished pieces.

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New Year's Resolution Writing

This document provides a lesson plan for teaching students in grades 1-5 how to write New Year's resolutions. It includes instructions for a pre-writing activity where students discuss resolutions and fill out a graphic organizer to plan their resolutions. It then guides students through a drafting process where they create a layered book with flaps to outline their resolution, potential problems, people to help, and strategies. Students write a draft, proofread, edit, and publish their resolution writing. The lesson concludes with students sharing their finished pieces.

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New Year’s

Resolutions
Writing

By Rachel Friedrich at Sub Hub


http://subhubonline.blogspot.com/
How to Use This Lesson
This lesson was written as a New Year’s Resolutions Writing activity ap-
propriate for grades 1-5 (with modifications). May of us make New Year’s
resolutions, but few of us keep them. This writing lesson shows students
that they can make resolutions just like adults, and that there are some
steps they can take to try to keep those resolutions as well. The lesson
can also easily be tied into:
• Goal Setting
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream” Writing

Materials Needed
• Copies of the Resolution Graphic Organizer
• Plain white paper (2 pieces per student)
• Notebook paper and contruction paper for publishing
Pre-writing Stage
Discuss resolutions with the students. Explain that resolutions are prom-
ises to yourself about something you wish to change. Compare them to
goals and point out how similar they are. Give some examples of resolu-
tions and point out how many people make resolutions, but few actually
keep those resolutions. Discuss reasons why. Some things discussed
might be:
• They make unrealistic resolutions
• They make unmeasurable resolutions
• They make too many resolutions
• They don’t have a plan for keeping the resolutions
• They don’t ask for help in keeping the resolutions

Then have students fill out the New Year’s Resolutions Graphic Organizer
to plan out their resolutions, keeping the discussion points in mind.

Planning Stage
Give students each two pieces of plain paper. Show them how to fold a
layered book.
1. Place the two pieces of paper on top of each other but offset
the top piece 1 inch taller than the bottom piece.
2. Fold the top to the bottom, again offsetting the edges by 1 inch
so you get four layers.

Instruct students to choose only one of the resolutions from their


graphic organizer. That goes on the cover the book. The second flap
should be labelled “Problems I May Have.” The third flap is labelled “Peo-
ple Who Can Help Me.” And the fourth flap is labelled “Strategies I Can
Use.” Students should add details in words (encourage lots of descriptive
words) and pictures.

This layered book becomes the structure for their draft.


New Year’s Resolutions

My Resolution for School:

My Resolution for Home:

My Resolution for the World:

© 2011 By Rachel Friedrich at Sub Hub


http://subhubonline.blogspot.com/
Draft Writing
Students use their layered books as their notes and write them into a
draft of one resolution and how they will keep that resolution. Make sure
they skip lines to allow room for proofing and editing.

Proofing
Implement your classroom proofing model. Make sure students proof
their work for capitals, punctuation, grammar, word choice, spelling, and
“making sense.”

Editing
Implement your classroom editing model. You can have the student self-
edit, peer-edit, or have teacher conferences for editing.

Final Copy/Publishing
Once the draft has been through the proofing and editing phases, stu-
dents then write a final copy of their finished story on notebook paper.
For publishing, you can also have them use a piece of construction paper
to mount their story and draw an illustration, or fold to enclose the story
in a cover.

Sharing
Finally, give students turns at sitting in the Author Chair to share their
finished pieces and get feedback from classmates.
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