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Writers Workshop
Rationale
It is important to expand on writing and understanding how to begin to start a small
story, by connecting small moments. It is also important for students to include
more details in their writing
Standards:
W.2.3 Text Types and Purposes
Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of
events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal
words to signal order, and provide a sense of closure.
W.2.5 Production and Distribution of Writing
With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen
writing as needed by revising and editing.
Objectives:
Students will demonstrate that they can understand writing a narrative by
using sequence words (First, Next, Last).
Students will add more details to their different small moments.
Students will use important aspects of a good, detailed story, discussed in
class, in their own stories.
Procedure:
1. Call students to the carpet, Writers it is time to gather on the carpet, please
go to your designated carpet spot
2. Remind students, In the past couple of days we have been working on
writing our own stories and you have been doing a great job! But today we
are going to make these stories come to life!
3. Now your stories so far are very good, but a great writer wants to keep
adding to their work, because the more detail there is the more the story will
come to life and make the person reading your story more connected to it.
4. Next show them your story (that you have previously written on the big
notepad). Remind them how you used first, next, and last. But again explain
how important it is to add details to every story.
5. Then, model how you can make details by explaining a section exactly as it
has happened. For example, My story started as first, my family and I went
to Disney World and our first stop was The Magic Kingdom Now what I can
do is add details to this section by thinking about what happened while we
were at Magic Kingdom I would go on to explain and write on the notepad in
detail what happened during the day at Magic Kingdom.
6. As I am writing I will pause and prompt the students about what else makes
a good story? Let them think pair share with each other to see what they
Finally, when students are writing details they add at least one dialogue
detail and one emotional detail.