Writer's workshop has been a busy place these days! While we learned how to write personal narratives in first grade, we are continuing to write them in second grade. Adding detail, and details that are in the correct order, has kept us very busy lately. We have been reading a variety of well-known personal narrative books to help guide us. A few of the recent ones were, Fireflies and Saturdays and Teacakes. These authors, Julie Brinkloe and Lester Laminack, did a great job with telling every detail, big or small, which helped us to visualize the stories.
How the narrator is feeling is a very important detail of personal narratives. We are all learning how to include details about our feeling in stories. It was a little tricky at first, so we made a "Hand Map" to help us. As a class, we made a list of feelings and then chose 5 to put on our map. Volunteers shared examples when they experienced one of these feelings. Each time someone shared, we wrote down the story by the feeling on our map. By the time we were done, we had come up with 10 incredible stories from our classmates!
The next day, everyone received their own "Hand Map" to fill in. Each person was able to pick out the feelings he/she wanted and then had to write two different stories about that feeling. It took two days to complete, but now everyone has a great tool to use for personal narrative topics.
No comments:
Post a Comment