We are participating in a modified way in the Two Writing Teachers' Classroom Challenge. Since my students don't have individual blogs, they are writing a slice every day in their writer's notebooks. Several times a week I will select a few to post here, on our classroom blog, to link up with other classroom slicers. We are writing memoirs this month, so many students are writing about memories. I gave them a choice, though, so some slices are about other topics. We'd love for you to comment on any or all the slices I scanned and posted. I hope you can read them okay. I'm slicing, too, right along with my students, on my own blog: http://hollymueller.blogspot.com/
This week I have used several mentor texts. These are picture books I have used for years to teach memoirs because they are pretty much perfect.
And a new one!
I asked my fifth graders to write memories about someone older than they are, a place they love, and an animal story. We also noticed an author's craft, so there are writing techniques that show up in their writing that they are trying out - figurative language, repetition, reflection, etc. I love that many of them are coming to me saying they only set out to write half a page in their notebooks (the requirement), but they end up writing much more. Writing is POWERFUL!
Write about someone older than you:
Write about your favorite place:
Write about an animal story:
We'd love for you to comment! Come back in a day or two for more slices from these talented young writers!
Thanks for sharing these wonderful memoirs. I love these mentor texts.We just finished a unit on memoir. I know some of my students will want to read these.
ReplyDeleteI'm enjoying the variety of writing that is coming from your simple yet powerful prompting. I love Cassandra's horse story. As a rider, I have had very similar experiences. Having your toes crunched by a 1000 lb animal is no joke.
ReplyDeleteThank, Mrs. Mueller for posting my entry! And thank you for complimenting me on my writing! That was nice! Ya know, ever since I was little I loved writing and reading. The more I read, the more I wanted to write a story. My folders on both my parent's computers are OVERFLOWING with stories I wrote. Actually, I'm writing one right now! It's called Hurricane Jayne. I'll sent it to you when I'm done through Google drive!
ReplyDeleteSome wonderful writing here! I'm sure your class is buzzing over their memoirs. I like that you gave them choices about content. I'm happy you found a way to publish them so we could read them.
ReplyDeleteWe are talking now about memoirs. We are third graders and I am going to show some of these as mentor text for our writing! Thanks for a preparing a great lesson for me!
ReplyDeleteHey that's mine about my bedroom.I also see my friend Sierra's slice about standing outside
ReplyDeleteBTW thank's for posting my slice.
ReplyDeleteMs. Mueller, I can't thank you enough for empowering the kids with memoir writing and using the blogspot to share other's stories. I always am intrigued by other kids imaginations and creativity. Keep up the outstanding work!
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