Our first writing unit of the year focuses on creating "small moment" personal narratives. Students are learning how to zoom in to describe important details to make our stories interesting for our readers. We are focusing on all of our senses to help us describe what we saw, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted. After E.C.O., students wrote a "small moment" story about what they saw in their small squares.
We have been reading the story Owl Moon, looking carefully at the way the author, Jane Yolen, stretches out her story about going "owling", using interesting words and figurative language. We will continue to revisit this mentor text throughout our narrative writing unit to examine other choices that Ms. Yolen makes and to try out some of these "craft moves" in our own writing.
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