The students' decorated writers notebooks look amazing! These decorations may help them think of topics to write about as we write through this school year.
This week we are focusing on generating many ideas for writing personal narratives. We discussed how authors normally don't just sit down and write, but they plan for their writing first by making a list, a story map, or a web. The first strategy students were taught is to think of a person who is important to them and then list moments that they have had with that person. I loved hearing students excitedly share these lists with a partner. The room was full of excited chatter! Then I told students that another strategy they could try is to think of a place that is special to them and then list moments that have happened at that place. We read the book Shortcuts by Donald Crews where the author uses the train tracks to write a small moment story. Students then continued to add to their list of possible story ideas.
Today, students picked one moment from their list and told their partner all about it, using enough details that their partner could picture what was happening. Then, they wrote the story down.
Here are a few pictures of the students sharing their lists of moments with people or in places and a few lists out of their notebooks.
I can generate ideas for a personal narrative
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