Direct Instruction:
The learning intentions for this video are: writing to describe a gingerbread house, constructing their house using their writing and editing their writing to include more detail as they continue to build in their Minecraft world.
During this lesson, I introduced gingerbread houses by reading "Hansel and Gretal" aloud the the class. Then, we discussed using description to write a desciptive paragraph about a gingerbread house. Students then shared a little of what they had written before finding out that they were going to be building their houses in a Minecraft world.
