Classroom Slice of Life - Trying Out Different Leads and the Memoir Writing Begins! Post 3

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/

 

In yesterday's mini-lesson, I showed the kids several leads that draw readers in: dialogue, action, description, thoughts/feelings, etc.  I asked them to try out their memoirs several different ways and pick their favorite one.  I counted the starters as their slices that day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today I gave a mini-lesson on how to write dialogue.  There are SO many nuances to writing dialogue, but they got the gist.  We'll fine-tune it as we go along.  I love the "before the dialogue mini-lesson" in Sam's writing, and the "after."  I love seeing the difference!

 

 

 

 

And now we're starting our rough drafts!