Sue Steele and myself were in the classroom today supporting the children to finish their publishing. The children were/are publishing their camp recounts.
Writing a recount is a very big task and has been going on since week 7.
All the children started with a brainstorm of their activity that they were going to write about.
Most of the children started off their planning for their recount writing by completing a pictoral plan. This helped the children think about what they did on the camp activity and record it visually. This visual record helped the children remember what happened and help write up their written plan.
The written plan is in chronological order and is broken up into the orientation, the event and the conclusion.
Through draft writing the children explore their ideas and practice putting sentences together and paragraphs together to create the recount.
The teacher uses a pink highlighter pen to highlight what they were "tickled pink" by and a green highlighter to highlight what needed to "Grow" and be developed.
Finally we get to the publishing stage. Check out http://room13sliteracyblog.blogspot.com/ for more published work!
There were two children in particular that worked especially hard today on their publishing. Sam and William.
Awesome work Room 13!!!!!!!!!!
