Organization

We are focusing on organization this week and our feature book is Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin.  We watched a video of the author reading her book and looked at how the book was organized by request, response, and so on.  Now my students are brainstorming topics to write about and will be writing back and forth as the cows do in the book.   Here's the video too!  Enjoy!

 Image courtesty of : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Clickclackmoo.jpg

Video courtesy of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV86cXfzCoE&feature=related

Another good one

Bradby writes, "Momma, where are you from?"
"Where are you from, Momma?  She's illustrating sentence fluency that captures the attention of all.  I had to read it many times to myself in order to make sure I got the fluency just right so that when I read it to my students, they could "hear" it as well.  They are currently in the middle of writing where they're from in interesting ways.

Welcome!

Hello lovers of picture books! I have an addiction to Amazon.com - only for the quick fix of children's literature though.  Do you look forward to coming home to those beautiful cardboard boxes with that all-too-familiar black writing?  I seriously can.not.wait for new books!  I hope my students share the same excitement when I reveal the "book of the week" that we're going to use to springboard this week's lessons. 

This week, we used I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen.  It's truly hilarious and fulfilling but lacking in details.  Using information from each page, students added the missing details in a creative writing activity.