Publishing Party!!!

Our class has spent the last 20 school days learning all about the structure of Writing Workshop.  We have been focusing on writing narratives - telling a true story of one moment in our lives.  Skills we have learned include: generating ideas, writing good leads and endings, having a beginning, middle, and end, using end punctuation, and making our writing more interesting by adding details and dialogue.

We also went through the process of revising and editing.  Today our class had a Publishing Party!  Students had the opportunity to self-assess their work, and made note of what they can do well as a writer and what they were able to do to improve their writing by comparing "before" and "after" revision pieces of their work.

We then put our work on display for the whole class to enjoy.  We had an opportunity to report out what kinds of things we noticed in others' writing that we would like to try in our own writing.

What's a party without party favors?!?  You will see our students sporting stretchy band bracelets - because "writing stretches your learning"!

Now that we have been through the entire process, we are going to start one more unit on narrative writing on Monday.  It is so exciting to watch second graders grow as writers!