Our Nonfiction Writing Unit is going great!
Writing partners help each other.
They plan their stories together, read them to one another and offer advice when a writer is stuck.
We always plan what we will work on before we go off to our writing spots.
Here are some first drafts:
The next day we talked about how important it is to keep your reader in mind.
We read through our books and asked ourselves-where would the reader wonder more?
They zoomed in on that page and added more!
A twin sentence is when you end a sentence with a word that becomes the first word of the next sentence!
Check these out:
Twin sentences aren't the only way to answer the question you think your read might have.
Here are some other examples:
We attended a fabulous concert by the 7th and 8th graders!
In math we are comparing numbers and using subtraction to find the difference between two numbers:
We added two new poems to our poetry binders this week:
Then made snowmen!