Students in the Write

Ms. McCabe’s December’s Writer’s Workshop

In our first published piece, students created a picture book describing a memory special to them. The class studied the author Cynthia Rylant to discover where writers get their ideas. Using our mentor author, we studied When the Relatives Came, Dog Heaven, Night in the Country, and Henry and Mudge. Once students completed their draft, students edited their pieces with guest parent editors. Finally, they visited the computer lab to publish their books using the program Storybook Weaver. Adding the oral storytelling using the ipods helped our class not only meet the New York State Standard for using language for literary response and expression in writing but for reading and speaking as well.

We will add stories as they are finished and read.

Griffin
posted 12/20/05

“The Big Bang!” as read by Griffin

“The Big Bang!” with illustrations, as a pdf file.

Claire
posted 12/20/05

“My Fun Guinea Pigs” as read by Claire

“My Fun Guinea Pigs” with illustrations, as a pdf file.

Katie S.
posted 12/20/05

“The Day I was Invited to a Wedding” as read by Katie

Danica
posted 12/20/05

“My Sister Danielle” as read by Danica

“My Sister Danielle” with illustrations, as a pdf file.