We are continuing to work on writing about our own personal experiences, as we did in our first unit of study. The focus, however, in our new unit of study is on developing more focused vignettes, or what we are calling in the classroom, "small moments." My goal is to teach students to retell a sequence of events with precise detail, and to write in such a way that a reader could follow those events. For the past 6 weeks, we've focused on retelling a series of events. We are shifting the focus now to zooming in on one aspect of an experience, elaborating on the moment across several pages to make the moment feel important and interesting.
Today, we focused on understanding what a small moment is. INQUIRE with your child what Vera B. Williams did in her writing as she explained the girl approaching the fire. Also, INQUIRE with your child what moment they wrote about today. What details did they include in their writing?
