In Writer's Workshop, we are back to focusing on our fictional stories! During the mini-lesson we reviewed "show, don't tell." Students had to find at least two spots on each page of their rough draft to revise a sentence to show, not tell or add a sentence that shows.
Also, during writing students learned how authors incorporate voice into their writing. Voice in writing show's the writer's personality, contains feelings and emotions, and makes the words come to life. Before reading a The Web Files, mystery picture book with strong voice, I showed the first couple seconds of Dragnet.
Margie Palatini does a wonderful job mirroring the writing in this book to an old detective crime series. She used strong voice to make her writing come alive. This book is hilarious and is filled with lots of puns, that now students are able to pick up on!
First they picked two cards to write two different stories from that person's or object's point of view. Some wrote as if they were a rocking horse, Santa, firefighter, cowgirl, bee, and many others.
When I told the class they would be sharing their writing and the class will have to guess who's "voice" they have, they immediately became very secretive, grabbing "offices" and sticking post-it notes over the voice they had on their paper.
The next day, they all had a chance to share, and it was hysterical! Some read with a deep voice if they were Santa, some with a Southern twang if they were a cowgirl, and a baby voice while reading as a baby. I really need to learn how to upload videos to this site!
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