Today after starting class with Harry Potter (love how much the kids are loving it!) we went into our writing lesson. Today I taught kids 2 more strategies for generating narrative story ideas and then we talked about one way to raise the level of our writing. The lesson today was called "Dreaming the Dream of the Story" and it was about how it is important to write in such a way that your readers are on the story journey right along with you. For example, instead of writing "I am sad." a writer could write, "I brush a tear with the back of my hand, while biting my lip to keep it from quivering." I also often call this lesson Show, not Tell. We used examples from Harry Potter as well to show how JK Rowling uses this technique in her writing.
Homework: J1-J4 Verb Tense Review (I will be doing a mini-lesson on this tomorrow!)
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