What's Up with Writing

We have started our writing workshop, and I am thrilled about our progress so far!  The best part is I think the students are more excited than I am.  They love writing time, and anyone can tell during our writing time that they are so eager to learn!

First we learned what writers do:

Then we learned that writers know that "when we are done we have just begun!"  We can . . .

We worked on adding details to our writing by really thinking about the details of our story.  We worked hard to add details to our writing.  Together we wrote a piece about our playground.

We're learning how to listen to the sounds of the words we are saying and write the letter that makes the sound.  First we practiced with labels, and then we wrote words and sentences.

Sometimes it is hard to think of something to write about.  Right now, we're focusing on writing about things we know a lot about, but writers can write about anything!

It was so fun to write pieces with  more than one page!  I'm impressed with how much these writers are able to share on one topic! We shared with our writing partners ideas on what else we can add to our writing.

Some of us even got to put covers on our pieces to make sure they looked like a published book!

We've learned a lot about how writers get started, persevere, and practice their craft.  In the future we'll dive deeper into narrative writing, informational writing, and opinion writing.