# Lesson 40: Celebrate Our Writing Progress

✍️ WRITING (40 Lessons) • 🟠 E. Writing Projects

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## Objective

I can reflect on how my writing improved, share a favorite piece, and celebrate progress with kind feedback and goals for next time.

## Materials

- Writing portfolio or 2–3 favorite pieces
- Sticky notes or feedback slips
- Tracing Pad (below) for title banners, headings, or certificates

Tip: Use sentence starters for feedback: “I noticed…”, “I liked…”, “Next, try…”.

## Mini-lesson — Reflect, Share, Celebrate

1. Look back: What changed from Lesson 1 to now? Handwriting, sentence flow, structure, word choice?
2. Choose pieces: Pick one favorite and one that shows the biggest growth.
3. Share kindly: Author chair or gallery walk. Listeners give specific praise + one suggestion.
4. Celebrate: Make a certificate, badge, or class shout-out for a skill you improved.
5. Set a next-step goal: One small goal for Level 4 (e.g., stronger openings, richer details).

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## Guided Practice — Make a Celebration Badge/Certificate

Use the pad to design a simple badge or certificate for you or a partner.

- Trace title words: Author, Growth, Fluent, Detail, Punctuation.
- Add one sentence starting with: “I improved by…” or “Next, I will…”
- Optional: sketch a small icon (⭐ ✍️ 📖).

Tracing Pad
Lines
Letter
Pen

## Drag & Drop — Celebration Plan & Kind Feedback

Drag the chips to build steps and feedback sentences for a positive celebration.

Choose pieces→ Set up displays→ Author chair→ Gallery walk→ Certificates
I noticed your transitions are smoother.
I liked the clear topic sentence and details.
Next try adding one more example to support your idea.
Please read aloud to check punctuation and flow.
Add a caption that matches your illustration.
Hang work at eye level with a title card.
Limit feedback to one praise and one suggestion.
Use neat handwriting on certificates and badges.
Smile applaud and say thank you to each author.
Take a photo of your badge to remember your goal.
Bring your portfolio home and share with family.

## Quick Check (15 questions)

#### 1) A celebration goal is to…

find new mistakes only reflect on growth and share proudly write a new essay today

#### 2) Which feedback starter is best?

I noticed… That’s fine I guess Whatever

#### 3) In a gallery walk, students should…

talk over the author remove pieces from the wall leave one praise and one suggestion

#### 4) A celebration badge should include…

the skill improved and a goal unrelated doodles only blank space

#### 5) Best place to hang work for viewing:

on the floor at eye level with a title card behind a door

#### 6) Kind feedback should be…

long and confusing off-topic specific and helpful

#### 7) During author chair, listeners should…

listen, clap, and give one suggestion talk to neighbors read another book

#### 8) A next-step goal might be…

skip details add stronger openings stop revising

#### 9) Which is an example of growth?

clearer paragraphs with transitions fewer sentences messier handwriting

#### 10) Certificates should be…

empty unrelated to writing neat and specific to a skill

#### 11) In feedback, limit yourself to…

five suggestions one praise and one suggestion no comments

#### 12) Good celebration manners include…

smiling, applauding, and saying “thank you” interrupting hiding others’ work

#### 13) A gallery walk works best when…

everyone crowds one piece no one reads the writing students rotate and leave brief notes

#### 14) A reflection sentence could start with…

I improved by… I don’t care… Someone else did it…

#### 15) After the celebration, you should…

throw your work away take your portfolio home and share it erase all feedback

## Assessment (parent/teacher)

Student identifies specific growth with examples Shares work and gives/receives kind, specific feedback Creates a neat badge/certificate naming a skill Sets one next-step goal for Level 4

## Exit ticket (student)

😀 I feel proud of my progress 🙂 I liked sharing my writing 😅 I need practice with my goal

#### My Level 4 goal…

Stronger openings Richer details Smoother transitions Careful punctuation
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