Mr. Storey

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Our class is full of amazing writers!  Come take a look at our bulletin board outside the classroom to see for yourself.   We have many creative minds in this class.

Our writing process started back at the beginning of September with a lesson about moments.  I asked the students to visualize a special moment that they had experienced in their life.  Maybe it was the time they ate their first chocolate bar.  Maybe it was the time they arrived at a vacation place.   We got to write down as many of these moments as we could.  Some students filled a whole page with moments that they had experienced in their life.

Now came the time to expand on these ideas.  I asked the students to pick a moment and write a short story about what it was like.   We followed a bubble planner that allowed the students to create a structured story.  We didn’t do this just one time.  Some students wrote up to 6 different stories in September about their special moments.

Then it came down to choosing the story that we would publish.  Each student chose one story that they would expand.  They doubled the length of these stories by providing more details for each sentence.  Next we edited the stories.  Kids looked through their writing looking for mistakes that they could fix.  I also had the opportunity to sit down with each of these students and conference with them about their writing.

Over the last two weeks, we wrote rough drafts and finally a finished copy.  These finished copies are currently on display outside our classroom and will eventually be put together into a book for our class.