Students have been working hard on their writing skills. They have been learning what good writer's do.

 

 

Students have learned:

   - the steps of writing workshop (Prewriting, Rough Draft, Revise, Edit, Teacher Conference, Publish)

 

Descriptive Writing

-Show Don't Tell

-Similes

-Transition Words

 

 

Upcoming Concepts

 

Narrative Writing

 

-every story includes a beginning, middle, and end

 

- ways to hook our reader

 

- ways to end our stories

 

- spicy words

 

- using our senses to help visualize our writing

 

 

 

Students also have been learning the foundations of a sentence.

 

- Every sentence starts with an uppercase and ends with a stop sign

 

- Every sentence has two parts a subject and a predicate

 

- A subject (nouns) is a person, place, or thing

 

- A predicate is the action that describes the subject

 

- Students are also learning the difference between a proper noun and a common noun