Personal+Narrative+Photostories

=__Personal Narratives__=  In writing we have officially launched the writing workshop and are focusing on writing personal narratives. Your children have already begun writing wonderful entries about themselves. This year I will spend considerable time teaching children about the qualities of good writing. I am convinced that writing well is a skill that can be taught and learned. Children will learn to write well-organized, detailed, compelling texts. I will teach the mechanics of good writing, which include punctuation, grammar, and strategies for accurate spelling. Much of the instruction on the mechanics and conventions will take place during our word study time, and your child’s growing proficeincy with the coventions of writing will transfer to their own writing.

You will see that I encourage children to write first draft writing without belaboring each word, which means that writing will not be perfect. Over time, it will be very important that children develop better and better habits so that it becomes second nature for them to punctuate, paragraph, and to spell high frequency words correctly. Of course the children will edit and correct their drafts before publishing them.

In the Personal Narrative Unit, children have been working on writing personal narrative stories. Students learned ways to generate seed ideas; learned ways to organize and plan their writing; practiced using colorful language; learned how to begin the story with a catchy lead and endings; learned how to edit work for spelling and punctuation errors; and learned how to write about important details. **Once the stories were taken through the writing process, the students then used Kidpix to illustrate three pictures, beginning, middle, and end of their personal narrative. They then used MS Photostory to put narration over the pictures and turn it into a movie.**

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