DIARY WRITING LESSON AND RESOURCES

A lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on diary writing.

After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:

• Develop an understanding of diary entry.
• Acquire imaginative skills and techniques required for diary entry.
• Use sequences of sentences and paragraphs that are linked smoothly to demonstrate knowledge of diary entry.

This Resource Includes:

• Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes
• Vocabulary Overview - Diary, Chronicler, Journal
• Flipped Lesson Part - Video - Diary Entry
• Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter – Same Answer
• Success Criteria - Diary Entry Checklist
• Scaffolding Notes - Diary Writing Format
• Collaborative Group Tasks – Pair-Share, Think-Write, Write-Share
• Mini-Plenary with Critical Thinking Questions – 3 Online Quizzes
• Assessment Criteria for Outcome Expectations - Rubrics
• Differentiated Activities for Level Learners - Writing Task by Outcome
• Extensions to Challenge the High Achievers - 5 Online Exercises
• Plenary to Assess Learning Outcomes - Diary Entry Features
• Home Learning for Reinforcement – 4 Task Cards
• Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.W.6-8.3abcde/4
• Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive
• Educational Tools and Resources - Adverbs, Verbs, Adjectives, Connectives

Teachers can use these resource to teach the students to make a diary entry, thereby helping them to enhance their writing skills.

For a PowerPoint Presentation of the same topic you may refer to:

DIARY ENTRY PRESENTATION

Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom:

• To challenge early finishers
• For effective tutoring
• As ESL stations and sub tubs
• As holiday work and homework
• For small group collaborations
• For an end of unit assessments 
• For reinforcement and enrichment

This is what teachers say about these resources:

• WRITING BUNDLE-LESSON PLANS: Great resource to always have! Really helped to raise the rigor of my lessons! – Cheri Reynolds
• DIALOGUE WRITING: This was easy to use. It helped my students to review and fix the errors they were making in their writing. –Beth G.
• CAPITALIZATION RULES: The perfect visual to help students remember to use capitalization while writing. – Mary Z.
• ACTIVE VERBS: This is a great resource to include in the binders for future resources. - Patricia O.
• FICTIONAL STORY WRITING: A great resource for students to practice writing during center. - Jamie S.
• NOUN PHRASES: This product was helpful for my ELD students! – Rae E.
• PLAY-SCRIPT WRITING: Can't wait to use this when I get back. Just love the approach to learning script writing skills. – Kathryn A.
• HOMOPHONES-HOMONYMS-HOMOGRAPHS: Very excited about using this in my intensive reading classes. – Tammye G.
• FIRST-AID: Great resource for first aid presentations. I'll be using this with my class. - Jackie Malley
• COMPOUND-COMPLEX SENTENCES: These task cards were perfect test practice! - Michelle P.
• PUNCTUATION WORKSHEETS: I found the variety of options to be useful,… I have used it to complement the areas of focus in my lessons. - Dianne P.
• SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT: I have used this resource several times already. –Jean C.
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• PLAY-SCRIPT PRESENTATION: This looks awesome! I am excited to use it with my advanced theater class this year! - Kimberly R.
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• STORY ANALYSIS HANDOUTS BUNDLE: Looking forward to using this extensively in all levels of my classes. - Olivia Fulmer.
• STORY ANALYSIS LESSONS AND RESOURCES BUNDLE: I'm using this for the English II short story unit. - Olivia Fulmer
• SENTENCES LESSONS AND RESOURCES BUNDLE: Very thorough. These cover all the areas of need for sentence types and structures. - Steelers Fan

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