Lesson Plan
On-Demand Prewriting
Students will develop pre-writing confidence by learning how to approach unfamiliar opinion writing prompts. Writers will generate a topic sentence and flush out supporting information.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to use an organizer to generate a topic sentence and supporting details when faced with an on-demand informational writing prompt.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Tell your class you are going to have them write congratulatory letter to the President, who will be visiting the class in two hours (allow for some confusion).
- Retract the assignment, explaining that such a request can incite confusion and uncertainty about something so unexpected.
- On-demand writing prompts, questions about unexpected ideas designed for students to answer right away with a topic sentence and personal details, often catch students by surprise.
- Explain when faced with a writing assignment, writers begin to generate, collect, and organize their ideas about the topic. They should see themselves as writers in the same way when faced with an on-demand opinion writing prompt.