Yesterday, we read over many examples of personal narratives and discussed if they would have earned a 4,3,2, or 1 on the writing rubric. We had very good discussions! Then students read through their stories and edited for content by adding details, talking, and descriptive words. Writers then had to say that their story looked most like the 4,3,2, or 1 and write why they thought that. They then needed to write something that they were going to try to do on their next personal narrative. They did a great job at self-assessing!
Today, we edited for punctuation, spelling, and capitalization. Students first did it on their own, and then they got with a partner and went through their stories again. I was so impressed with how seriously students took their jobs to be editors! It was wonderful to see.
Here are some pictures of the writing that we discussed. It will also give you examples of what a third grader should be writing.
Here are some pictures of the students taking their editing job seriously and helping another student out.