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Blurring Genre: Exploring Fiction and Nonfiction with Diary of a Worm
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| Grades | 6 – 8 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Standard Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Five 50-minute Sessions |
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Provo, Utah |
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MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY
- Copies of Doreen Cronin's Diary of a Worm (2003), Diary of a Spider (2005), and Diary of a Fly (2007)
- Websites and print texts for student research of the class-chosen topic
- Computers with Internet access
STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information.
Grades 3 – 10 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
This interactive invites students to create original multigenre, multimodal works--one drawing and three written texts--making the tool flexible for multiple writing activities.
PRINTOUTS
- K-W-L Chart
- Peer Evaluation Sheet for Diary Entries
- Diary Book Rubric
- Diary Book Reflection Questions
PREPARATION
- Obtain a copy of Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider, and Diary of a Fly.
- Make copies of necessary handouts.
- Gather resources (either print or online texts) for inquiry after students have chosen a class topic. Check ahead to recommend appropriate online sites.
- Depending on your students' familiarity with research skills and processes, you may wish to provide students some instruction adapted from the following ReadWriteThink lessons: Developing Searching, Skimming, and Scanning Skills with Internet Bingo; Inquiry on the Internet: Evaluating Web Pages for a Class Collection; Wading through the Web: Teaching Internet Strategies; and the interactive Fact Fragment Frenzy.
- Test the ReadWriteThink interactive Multigenre Mapper and NoteTaker to familiarize yourself with the tools and ensure you have the proper Internet plug-ins, available at our Technical Support Page.