Autobiographical+Recount



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 *  Getting Ready: Guided Imagery

Brainstorm categories for stories with the students - school adventures, a special holiday, brothers, sisters, family, scary moments and so forth.  Ask students to close their eyes. Using the questions below ask them to imagine the incident in their minds. * What time of day is it? * what is the weather like? >  <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block">   || <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 77)">Creating the Image: Draw the story <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"> <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)"><span style="color: rgb(236, 54, 59)">Write the Image: Brainstorming Descriptive Words and Action Verbs >       <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="color: rgb(36, 25, 25)"><span style="color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(34, 27, 27)">"Said" - [|Check out this chart] "walked" - [|Check out this chart] >       <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="color: rgb(36, 25, 25)"><span style="color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)">
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">How is the weather affecting you?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">Where are you?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">Look around you. What do you see?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">What colours and textures are around you?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">How are you holding your body?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">What mood are you in? Content? Sad? Excited?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">What expression are you wearing on your face?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">What are you holding your body?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">What clothes are you wearing
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">Are there other people around you?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">Who are they?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">What do they look like?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">What are they wearing?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">How are they acting?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">How do you feel about these people?
 * <span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">Are there any sounds? What do you hear?
 * <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(71, 85, 235)">How are the sounds affecting you?
 * <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="color: rgb(36, 25, 25)"><span style="color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)">Invite students to draw a picture of their visualizations.
 * <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="color: rgb(36, 25, 25)"><span style="color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)">Post the questions above on a chart so students can have activate their memory of their images as they draw.
 * <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="color: rgb(36, 25, 25)"><span style="color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)">Informally conference with students in a way that leads them to add details to their picture.
 * <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="color: rgb(36, 25, 25)"><span style="color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)">     <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="color: rgb(36, 25, 25)"><span style="color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)">Encourage students to share their images.
 * <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="color: rgb(36, 25, 25)"><span style="color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)">On two "post-it" have them make a list of action words and descriptive words that are evident in the picture.
 * <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="color: rgb(36, 25, 25)"><span style="color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)">Create classroom charts of action words by category. Take examples from each child. You could also share the following websites with students to provide additional examples.
 * <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="color: rgb(36, 25, 25)"><span style="color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)">Encourage students to add to their list from the class charts.

<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)">    <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)"><span style="color: rgb(236, 54, 59)">Writing the Recount >        Home
 * <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="color: rgb(36, 25, 25)"><span style="color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)">Have students fill in their writing template in sequential order, drawing upon the lists of descriptive words and action verbs they have created.
 * <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="color: rgb(36, 25, 25)"><span style="color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)">Draw their attention to the linking words on the side of the template.
 * <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 13)"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="color: rgb(36, 25, 25)"><span style="color: rgb(34, 27, 27)"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(24, 46, 220)">[[file:Recount Template.doc]]