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Writing for Readers: Teaching Skills and Strategies: Primary Grades Day 1 Teaching Procedure Materials Lesson 1: Inspiring Children Connection: o Invented-spelling story on chart (first 2 Discuss celebration from last unit and tell students that the class pages readable, last pages unreadable and to Write for Ideas will continue to write small moments stories. leaving “reader Hanging”) Minilesson: o Booklets (3-4 pages of writing paper 1. Teacher tells a detailed story of trying to read a student’s stapled together) writing but how she became frustrated because the writing o Plan for new Writing Partnerships became unreadable. 2. Show the chart story and point to the words on the first page and read. Teacher models getting very interested and excited about what will happen next. 3. Turn the page of the chart story and continue to read and model interest. 4. Turn to the last page. Teacher gets acts out confusion and disappointment because the words are unreadable. After this lesson, collect the 5. Teaching Point: It is a really sad thing to not be able to read a writing and sort them into 2 story whether it is ours or someone else’s. piles: