Writing

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Writing

• Lucy Calkins Program

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The Writing Workshop

• 4 times per week
• Consistent structure mini-lesson, guided
  practice and conferencing
• Writers notebooks school and home
• Reading/writing connection

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Writing GenrePersonal Narrative

• Children at this age write best about what they
  know
• 1 unit of personal narrative, essay unit from a
  personal perspective and realistic fiction based
  on personal experience
• We will also be introducing more expository and
  opinion based writing

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Strategies for Generating Writing

• Think of a person who is important to you.
• Think of a place that matters to you.
• Think of an object and let that object spark a
  memory.
• Then create the movie of that small moment and
  play it over and over.
• Storytelling is an important component

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Qualities That Make Writing Great!

• Tell a seed story, not a watermelon story.
• Include true, exact details.
• Tell the story step by step.
• Develop strong leads and endings.
• Write so your reader gets a picture in his/her
  head.

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Writing Across the Curriculum

• Literature response
• Science and Social Studies reflective writing
• Write Math

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Ways You Can Help

• Storytell with your child
• Highlight experiences that could be good seed
  ideas
• When reading together, help your child notice
  elements of the writing that they might try in
  their own writing
• Join us for Authors Celebrations