School Wide Writes

Today we did some preliminary work for our School Wide Writes. This involved using S.M.A.R.T. Learning techniques to do some planning for our writing.

1. First, we chose our topic. As a class, we decided to write about a journey.
2. Next, we talked about what criteria we were going to pay attention to as we wrote. We talked about things like interesting ideas, having a definite beginning, middle, and end, paragraph use, and spelling/punctuation use.
3. After that, we did an idea web individually on our Thinking Pages.
4. Next, we took our Thinking Pages to the gym and engaged in Walk-to-Talk partner work. This means that we walked around the gym with our partners, talking about our ideas.
5. Then we returned to our Thinking Pages and wrote down new ideas we might have come up with while walking with out partners.
6. Finally, we reflected on what we did while we were coming up with new ideas - this is what good writers do!

Tomorrow we will be developing the Thinking Page before moving on to our writing. Fantastic work, Division One!