A. Interactive Writing: Writing a Silly Sentence with Words That End in "-ed" and Words That Follow the 1-1-1 Doubling Rule or Magic "e" Rule, and Contractions with "could"

• (Suggested transition song, sung to the tune of "The Muffin Man"):

Teacher: "Do you know the words we'll write, the words we'll write, the words we'll write? Do you know the words we'll write on our boards today?"

Students: "Yes, we know the words we'll write, the words we'll write, the words we'll write. Yes, we know the words we'll write on our boards today!"

• Begin the Interactive Writing instructional practice:

1. Teacher says: "Today we will use the words we know to make a silly sentence. We will use the words that follow the 1-1-1 doubling rule or follow the magic 'e' rule. Let's think of words we can use!"

2. Teacher asks:

"Who can think of a word that follows the 1-1-1 doubling rule with '-ed'?"

3. Teacher records word on T-chart.

4. Teacher says: "Yes, (suggested word) follows the 1-1-1 doubling rule."

5. Teacher asks:

"How do you know it follows this rule?" (It has one syllable, one consonant at the end, and one short vowel.)

6. Teacher asks:

"Who can think of a word that follows the magic 'e' rule with '-ed'?" Teacher records word on T-chart.

7. Teacher records word on T-chart.

8. Teacher says: "Yes, (suggested word) follows the silent 'e' rule."

9. Teacher asks:

"How do you know it follows this rule?" (The base word ends in magic "e" and the suffix "-ed" begins with a vowel, so you drop the "e.")

10. Teacher says: "Now it's time to use your white boards to record the words with me."

11. Teacher says: "After we make our list, we will be writing a silly sentence together. The sentence has to have as many '-ed' words that follow the 1-1-1 doubling rule or the magic 'e' rule as we can add. If we want our sentence to be really silly, we want to have lots of words to choose from. So, we are going to work together to think of as many words as we can. You can now think of as many of these words as you can and write them on your white board."

12. Students write words individually or with partners for 1-2 minutes.

13. Volunteers share out words from their list. If a student identifies a word that does not follow the 1-1-1 doubling rule or magic "e" rule, teacher guides student to correct the mistake.

14. Students correct on their white boards.

15. Teacher adds students' words to the Word List.

16. Repeat steps 13-15 with several more words if necessary (enough from which to choose to create a silly sentence). Students follow along by circling words on their own white board that were shared by others.

17. Teacher says: "Wow! Look at all the words we've listed that follow the 1-1-1 doubling rule or magic 'e' rule! Now we are ready to write a silly sentence! We need a few high-frequency words to make our sentence, too. I will use the word wall to find some more words for our sentence. We should also try to use a word that has a contraction with 'would.'"

18. Teacher says: "A silly sentence makes us laugh because we use words that don't usually go together or give us a funny picture in our head."

19. Teacher says silly sentence. Example (use student-generated words): "She'd have to put a red clown nose on every time she changed clothes."

20. Teacher asks:

"How many words are in the sentence?" (13)

21. Teacher says: "Yes! We will write a 13-word sentence together." Teacher repeats the sentence, tapping out each word on the chart paper or white board.

22. Teacher and students share pen to take turns interactively writing the sentence (see Interactive Writing lessons in Grade 1, Modules 1-2 for more details).

23. Teacher stops to review punctuation rules as needed.

24. When sentence is finished, teacher says: "Let's read our silly sentence we came up with from the words we know."

25. Students and teacher read sentence together.