Snapshots from Summer Sessions

First Meeting: Author’s Purpose & Pre-writing

Third Meeting: Drafting & Editing

On our mystery walk warm up, kids wrote the beginnings of a mystery tale. It was fun to watch them pull from their own prior knowledge about the way that storytellers create the feeling of suspense and suspicion. Some kids described our mystery character as having their hands in their pocket or ducking behind objects. I encourage parents to take a look at their composition books to see what they came up with.

Speaking of composition books, we used ours to take notes about the writing process and begin drafting our stories. In the “Daily Love” newsletter, you will see an attachment for a digital tool for drafting if your child still prefers typing. Yes, it is important that we give them regular opportunities to write by hand, and I intend to create some resources for developing a handwriting practice. However, for this project, we want them to get their story ideas out and follow through the writing process to create final drafts in the form of books. So typing can be a nice outlet to keep them going versus getting frustrated with the handwriting piece.