Mrs. Bradley's Grade 2
We are continuing to build upon our descriptive writing skills by adding a new learning target to work on. This week we focused on the organization of our ideas. We discussed the importance of an opening sentence that gets the reader's attention and practiced ways to write that. We all agreed that a paragraph that had many sentences that started with "I see" or "I hear" or "I think" was pretty boring to read. But if a sentence began with, "Ahh! I screamed as the bison trampled past me!" it got the reader's attention and made them want to read more. We changed the writing process when we had students write on strips of colored paper. They wrote sentences from each category on a different colored strip of paper. This allowed students to rearrange their sentences and decide what order made the most sense and was the most interesting. The images for our descriptive writing were of bison and tipis as we are beginning to learn about the Prairies and the Blackfoot people as part of our Social Studies curriculum.
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AuthorMrs. Bradley's class is made up of 24 students from Dr. Roberta Bondar School. Archives
June 2018
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