September 14, 2015

Back to the post-its!  After giving students the supplies they would need, I gave each of them on of their past stories. We are going to do rewrites as in add to our stories or delete if necessary.  I worked with small groups and had them write down the main details from their stories on post-its.  Then, I talked with them about ideas they might want to add to their stories to make them more interesting to the reader.  I also had a short story that I wrote and I had mine ready with the details on the post-its and on the paper.  Then, I showed them a place where I had an idea to make it better. I wrote down the details on post-its and moved everything around. Then, I read my paragraph to them and then all agreed it was much better than the first paragraph I read to them.  After they saw how I manipulated the post-its, they were ready to start on their stories.  We did not finish today, but I saw some excited little writers doing rewrites and they all thought they were just having fun!  J