Writer's Workshop Update

The children have been writing like real authors for the last few weeks.  Some are telling stories using pictures and labels and some are telling their stories using pictures with words underneath.  The children spend most afternoons in writer's workshop. Throughout the last few weeks, the children have learned that:

*writers choose topics and write what they know about, 

*writers first think of a topic, envision it, and then draw it

*writers know that when they are finished, they have more to do

*writers go back and add more detail

*writers take care of their tools

*writers draw even hard to make ideas

*writers write words,

*writers stretch the words

*writers listen for the sounds in a word and record these, 

*writers reread the written words, 

*writers can use alphabet charts and word books and 

*writers say, "I'll do the best I can and keep going."

What is your child writing about? What is your child working on in their writing?

Some students are also working on using periods, spaces, upper case letters at the beginning of sentences, and drawing more detailed pictures.