Getting your child excited about reading
In our class throughout the year, we will be working on various units. On my homepage, students will be asked to post a "free write" where they will be given some guidelines within one of our focused units to post a piece that reflects specific skills taught within the classroom. For example, in the beginning of the school year, students are focusing on "Crafting True Stories" and have learned various ways to lift their piece:
- Grasping their reader's attention with a strong lead using:
- dialogue
- action
- sound words
- Telling the story bit by bit
- Show not Tell strategies
- describes the actions that take place
- uses dialogue
- describes images around the storyteller
- describes what we saw, tasted, smelled or felt
- Use precise descriptive language to lift their piece
- Focus on a small seed moment rather than a large watermelon topic
- i.e.: watermelon topic: Day at the beach
- i.e.: seed topic: riding the wave into shore with mom
- Create an ending that closes the piece and nicely ties it in with their beginning
In this unit of study, students will be expected to come up with an idea and write a personal narrative story where they are to revise as they go keeping in mind the ideas learned above.
