RWT Lesson Plan Analysis: Lisa Boyd- Lesson: All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing: This lesson appealed to me because it is an exciting way to get students interested in writing as well as learning about their town in a creative way. Even though it is a lengthy lesson, it will positively benefit students’ writing, editing (which will aid in their grammar and spelling), revising, analyzing, synthesizing, communication skills (used to conduct interviews) as well as learning different ways of gathering needed information.
Students will enjoy looking at different brochures and discovering things about their town that they may have not known. I like the idea of this lesson because students gain insight as to the purposes for which people read and write. They will get to write for a specific audience, work on editing/revising their writing as well as get to work collaboratively creating a brochure for new students at their school. Lessons such as this give students enthusiasm for writing, researching and collaboration, and in the process they don’t really think about it as a dreaded assignment but instead learn to use a great deal of skills that they likely would have had a negative attitude about given it had been an independent writing assignment .