Narrative Stories

Over the past few weeks, our writing focus has been on narrative writing. Students read a variety of stories and learned the features of narratives. Their assignment was to come up with their own adventure stories. They planned their ideas, developed their topic and came up with drafts of their work. They followed a checklist and had to ensure that their adventure stories had key must haves such as: problem and solution, characters, setting, details, describing words, linking words and character dialog with quotation marks. Students self assessed their work and had to follow the feedback from the teacher and their peers. We revised and edited to help our friends produce their best work.

Please head over to our class KidBlog account and leave us some comments or feedback on what you think of their hard work. They are very eager to share their amazing stories globally and can't wait to see comments on their hard work.

https://kidblog.org/class/MrsCiampa/posts

Narratives

Last week we completed our Narrative stories. Students had the opportunity to write their own Narrative stories and referenced a checklist to help keep them on track. We used the Padlet that we created together with Mme. Erskine's Grade 4 class to recall what Narratives must have.

We participated in the 5 Sentence Challenge for homework where we were challenged to write a narrative paragraph. Students really enjoy this challenge. They get to receive comments from participants from around the world!

For our final Narrative task, we came up with our own story line and tried to be as creative as we could when writing our own stories. We worked with a partner to read and edit our work. We wrote our good copies on our KidBlogs. Our goal was to share the story creatively with our partners on KidBlog so that after we read the stories, we could offer comments. The students love reading one another's blog posts. It is powerful to receive comments from our friends. The comments help us become better writers. They also give us a real life audience!

Please go to our KidBlog accounts to view or read the Narrative stories of our classmates. We always welcome anyone to comment on our blogs!

We used some tools to share our writing in a creative way after writing our good copies. Some students recorded themselves reading. Others used an app to draw  a picture and narrate their story.

Homework April 20-24: Commenting on Narratives

This week for homework students are strongly encouraged to read and comment on their friend's narrative stories that we wrote last week. We worked really hard on following the Narrative Must Have list and to create an interesting narrative story. The online comments we receive on our blogs allow the students to see what their classmates think. This exposes them to a wider audience with a wide range of thoughts, opinions and questions. The goal of the homework this week is to Bump Up our dialogue on the comments, and to ask questions to expand our thinking. Parents are more than welcome to leave positive comments as well!!

For Homework this week:

1. Log into your KidBlog account
2. View the Narrative stories of at least 4 friends.
3. Read and give a LEVEL 4 comment to your friend.
4. Make sure to keep checking back to see if they replied to your question!

If you would like to comment on more narrative stories, please continue to post a comment on the Five Sentence Challenge Website. Our friends at St. Anne School in Kanata have written wonderful stories that you can comment on here: http://fivesc.net/2015/04/09/prompt-13-2/#more-1719

Homework April 13-17 - Five Sentence Challenge!

This week for homework students can focus on writing a narrative story just like we are working on in class! There is a brand new 5 Sentence Challenge prompt on the FIVESC website. The current writing prompt is .....climbing a mountain.....

For homework:
1) Stuednts can write a 5 paragraph story using the writing prompt  .....climbing a mountain.....

2) Post your 5 paragraph narrative story on your KidBlog account

3) Comment on your friend's blog!

4) If you'd like to comment on students who are writing their own stories from around the world...follow this link!! http://fivesc.net/2015/04/09/prompt-13-2/ Click on any of the links to view and comment on their stories!!

Happy Writing.