Please don't think writing is over for the year just because the STAAR test is out of the way. On the contrary, we will be doing lots of writing in class for the remainder of the year. We will revisit narrative writing and poetry, but then we will take off into other interests in writing including, but not limited to, fairy tales, reports, speeches, scripts, newsletters, presentations, and choose your own adventure. We will still revisit writing mechanics and spelling throughout the remainder of the year as the students apply their strategies to new types of writing. They will create on paper and on the computer. Lots of possibilities here!!!
The first type of writing we will dip into is imaginative writing. Wednesday will be an easy day for the kids. Mostly we will have a mini lesson, do some discussion about imaginative writing, and I'll offer some strong mentor texts for students to analyze. Thursday, we will dive in more.
That's it for now. I hope the kids enjoyed camp and their goody bags.