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The document provides a comprehensive guide for students to enhance their descriptive writing skills by focusing on writing about their best friend, specifically through sensory details, figurative language, and a clear conclusion. It includes checklists for revising and proofreading, along with a sample draft to help students with essential elements like a topic sentence and similes. Additionally, the document describes the author’s friendship with their best friend, Katrina, detailing how they met, their shared interests, and plans for the future. Other sections explore encounters with an elderly photographer and activities related to reading comprehension and story analysis, emphasizing tasks for understanding texts, identifying story elements, and engaging in reflective learning with teacher support.
Contents
- Pages 1—20: Descriptive writing guidance.
- Pages 21—34: Friendship with Katrina.
- Pages 35—46: Meeting Mrs. Quevedo
- Pages 47—56: Reading comprehension activities.
Pages 1—20: Descriptive writing guidance.
This section of the document focuses on guiding students on how to write a descriptive paragraph about their best friend. It includes details on using sensory details, figurative language, and a clear conclusion in their writing. Students are provided with checklists for revising and proofreading their work. The document also includes a sample draft about a friend named Katrina, encouraging students to revise it to include essential elements like a topic sentence, sensory details, similes, and a conclusion that expresses the writer’s thoughts or feelings. The goal is to help students improve their descriptive writing skills through guided revisions and feedback.
Pages 21—34: Friendship with Katrina.
This section of the document describes the friendship between the author and their best friend Katrina. It talks about how they met in first grade, share similar interests like riding bikes, reading books, and cooking. The author describes Katrina’s physical appearance, mentioning her beautiful brown hair and sparkling eyes. The two friends plan to take a cooking class together to learn how to make homemade pizza. The author expresses gratitude for having Katrina as a friend and hopes they will always remain close.
Pages 35—46: Meeting Mrs. Quevedo
In this section, Marla and Carla meet Mrs. Quevedo, a kind elderly woman who asks them to rake her front yard due to her bad back. The girls work together, with Carla initially being hesitant and afraid of Mrs. Quevedo, while Maria is more open and curious. Mrs. Quevedo eventually reveals her basement is actually a darkroom for developing film as she is a photographer. The girls are fascinated by her work and equipment. Maria follows Mrs. Quevedo inside to see her darkroom, while Carla stays outside raking leaves, showing different reactions from the two girls.
Pages 47—56: Reading comprehension activities.
This section of the document covers various activities related to reading comprehension and story analysis. It outlines tasks for students (S) to understand selected texts, identify characters, setting, and events in a story, compare texts for similarities and differences, and choose readers to read. Important details include instructions for discussing pictures, reading questions, understanding vocabulary, analyzing story structure, and reflecting on learned skills. Students are encouraged to complete tasks with the help of a teacher (T) and engage in reading recommended leveled readers and revising written work.