Report versus Narrative writing

Here is a venn diagram. In the middle it shows the features that we used in Narrative Writing. We can use this learning for our Report Writing.

Horton Draft Writing

We have been learning about the Habits of Mind. Last week we looked at persistence through the story Horton Hatches the Egg.
We have identified that Horton was very persistent and Maisy was not.

We are now re-writing Horton from Maisy's Point of View. This is a good way to think about another Habit of Mind - Thinking Flexibly.

Our stories are not finished yet. Here is an example of how they sound:

LI: WALT draft a narrative from Maisy's Point of View. SC: The story must: be told from Maisy's point of view have a problem and a solution descriptive language.


Zanitha

On a very hot day in the jungle I laid my first egg. It was a beautiful white and red dotted egg. I felt very tired and I felt like I needed a good vacation. Suddenly the ground started to shake. I thought I was going to fall off the tree and then it stopped. It was an elephant. A pink one. It was Horton. When I saw him I had an idea. I said to him, "I'm standing on this nest and I need a good rest, may you please stand on my nest?"

He accepted. So I left for my vacation with happiness. First I went to the beach and had a very long rest. Then I bought a big scoop of ice-cream.

Buddy Feedback - Shark Writing

We are learning to give each other feedback. We are learning how to do it for swimming and for writing. Here are some pictures of us talking to our buddies about our narratives. We were looking for the problem and the solution in the story. We were also making sure that the story was told from the "shark's point of view".