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Peer Critique: Historical Accuracy of Ideas and Vocabulary Lesson PlanPeer Critique: Historical Accuracy of Ideas and Vocabulary Lesson Plan
Publisher
EngageNY
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Grade
4th
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English Language Arts
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Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2014
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Peer Critique: Historical Accuracy of Ideas and Vocabulary

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Promote collaboration in the classroom with a historical fiction instructional activity. Fourth graders partner up and read the other's narrative to give feedback on vocabulary choice and the accuracy of historical information. After conferencing, young writers transfer the feedback to their drafts and begin revising their narratives with a colored pencil.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

peer editing, historical fiction, fictional narratives, Narrative Writing, narratives, the writing process, Writing, colonial america, colonies, the american colonies

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Establish a respectful protocol that allows learners to provide constructive and specific feedback
  • Keep individual work organized in a folder
  • Explain the importance of skipping lines in the drafts, which makes it easier to distinguish revision notes

Classroom Considerations

  • The seventh of 16 lessons that guides learners through the process of writing a historical fiction narrative set in Colonial America
  • Provide colored pencils for individuals to use

Pros

  • Common Core designed
  • Includes a narrative feedback form and a narrative anchor chart that walks pupils through the revision process
  • Offers ways to set up a protocol to provide the most helpful and constructive feedback

Cons

  • None

Common Core

W.4.5 SL.4.1.a

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