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For the first time in Writers Workshop, we are NOT writing true stories (personal narratives) that happened to ourselves or even letters....we started an entirely new creative genre of writing...WRITING REALISTIC FICTION!!! Your writers get to imagine a character! Give the character a name! Imagine a setting and create trouble for the character.... then writers must get the character OUT of trouble! We are using Junie B. and Henry and Mudge books as mentor texts to BRING OUR CHARACTERS TO LIFE and create a series of books that people will LOVE READING FOR YEARS TO COME!!! We will be celebrating a BOX SET of stories- all with the same pretend character that your writer created! Let the strong adjectives, nouns, verbs, and details come fill the books in our series!
Since our Letter Writing Genre Study is over in Readers Workshop (where we READ letter writing books), we are now writing letters to anyone we want during Writers Workshop! Your writers have brainstormed a list of people they can write a letter and the reason WHY. WE charted possible greetings and closings and read Sincerely Yours with tips for friendly letter writing!
After writing real, true personal narrative stories that happened to us, we revised and edited our stories to celebrate our hard work as authors! When we revise our stories, we make them better! We added strong openings, details, dialogue, deep true feelings in our heart, and strong endings. When we edit our stories, we make sure they look like a book! Good writers make sure they have spaces so readers can read and enjoy our stories! We also check to be sure our letters are neatly written like a book, we have punctuation, capitals, and words fixed that are on a word chart or in our quick word booklets. We invited Mrs. Mettemeyer's kindergartners and enjoyed cookies and a toast of cherry 7UP to the amazing authors in the room! May we today and for the rest of our lives continue to write true personal narrative stories that matter in our heart and share them with the world!
We are ALL AUTHORS!!! We write true stories that happened to us and live in our hearts! Your writers chose the writing they were most proud of and fancied it up for...A WRITING CELEBRATION! We shared our writing in groups, ate refreshments, and had a toast (of root beer) to all the amazing authors in the room! May they forever continue to write stories that matter today and for the rest of their lives...cheers! Congratulations! Award winners for illustrations (Caldecott Award) and the best story (Newberry Award) will be voted on next week at the Writing Kingdom! We got our books ready for the celebration, like Henrietta does in The Plot Chickens! |
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