Writing Focus: Narrative
Students wrote a number of fantastic narrative stories this module and had a chance to share their work with grade 2 students in the auditorium. Writer's workshops focused on character development, story elements, planning stories, and "showing, not telling" readers. Students used sites like Storybird (check out Gina's blog post) and Storyboard during centers to create stories.
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Reader's Workshop and CentersStudents excelled in demonstrating their active reading skills this semester and regularly had lively conversations about the books that they were reading. Reader's workshops focused on talking back to books using sticky notes, asking thick questions, and summarizing texts.
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