Personal Narratives

We do a lot of writing in room 306.  As I’ve said on numerous occasions, writing is difficult.  We are now working on PERSONAL NARRATIVES and kids have been using a variety of strategies to figure out what they will be writing about.  We are talking about SMALL MOMENTS – small snippets of time they should be writing about, rather than large chunks of time.  If you want to write about your vacation to Hawaii, think about something that happened on your trip, instead of the entire trip.  I shared a story from my childhood called “DUCK!”.  Ask them to tell you about it.  J  Telling a story is a strategy too.  If you are telling people about something that happened to you, you could write about it too. 

We are BRAINSTORMING.  We are using GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS.  We are PRE-WRITING.  We are SHARING our thoughts.  We are WRITERS.