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| The wonderful world of writing is alive
and well in Room 405! Our writers are beginning to realize the
importance of sharing the stories of their lives, and we are living more like writers each
and every day! The world needs to hear their stories and they have
been working hard learning new strategies and tools to help them better
communicate their thoughts and ideas.
Here's an inside peek to what we've been working on lately.
Feel free to ask your son or daughter about their strategies and tools.
Ask them questions a teacher would ask during a writing conference, and
you might be surprised by their insightful answers! |
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Strategies for Generating
Personal Narrative Writing
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Think of a person who matters
to you, then list clear, small moments you remember with him or her.
Choose one to sketch and then write the accompanying story. |
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Think of a place that matters
to you, the list clear, small moments you remember there. Choose one
to sketch and then write the accompanying story. |
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Notice an object and let that
object spark a memory. Write the story of that one time. |
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Qualities of Good Personal
Narrative Writing
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Write a seed story; don't
write all about a giant watermelon topic. |
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Zoom in so you tell the most
important parts of the story. |
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Include true, exact details
from the movie you have in your mind. |
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Questions Teachers Tend to Ask During a Writing
Conference
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What are you working on as a writer? |
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What are you trying to do as a writer? |
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What will you do today in your writing? |
An example of a writing conference might sound something
like this...
Teacher: What are you working on as a writer?
Student: I'm writing a personal
narrative about baseball, and I've zoomed in on the last time I was up at
bat.
Teacher: What are you trying to do as a writer?
Student: I want to really write with
details, but I'm not sure I remember them.
Teacher: What will you do today in your writing?
Student: I was going to sketch the scene
to see if that gets me remembering details I've left out.
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| *Many of our writing
lessons and homework come from Lucy Calkins, Units of Study for Primary
Writing. Other ideas and prompts are from Ralph Fletcher's The Writing
Notebook: Unveiling the Writer Within* |
