The 5 senses we already use in our writing to create a mental picture in our readers minds are..
- things we see around us
- things we hear (noises, sounds)
- things we smell
- things we feel
- things we taste
We have been learning about these throughout the year and now we are adding even more detail including
- things we are thinking at the time
- what we were doing (actions, body language)
- what we were feelding inside
- what we were saying and how we said it
We practiced using the prompts when we were writing a moment in time about Tee Ball.
We are crafting our writing and watch this space to read some of new and improved writing with EXTRA detail.
Miss Suze now draws little pictures like the symbols on the chart in our books to give us good ideas if we need them.
We have highlighter goals at the top of our books we can see every time we write. At the end of writing time we look at our goal and think about how we did with that goal today. This is called a reflection (like in a mirror, we look and think about what we've done)
First it is crafting time when we use green pen to cross words out and choose better words or when we add more detail.
When it is editing time we collect dictionaries to check our spelling. We use green pen to make changes. We read our work out loud to ourselves to check it makes sense.
After we have crafted our work (made it better) and
edited our work (checked it makes sense and you can read the words) we share it with a buddy to get feedback.
Feedback is reading your work aloud and talking about what makes it a good piece of writing. It is positive and kind.
Feedback is 2 Stars and a Wish
2 Stars are 2 things that the author has done well in their writing and you can tell by looking at the learning goals, WALTs, Success Criteria and the writing prompts to see if they have all the things they need.
A Wish is something the author could work on next time they are writing.
