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Going to do a joint project with the photography teacher. Her students took 4-5 pictures of objects around the school (no people). Now the reading teachers are going to have the students write narratives to tell a story about those pictures.

I have not done much with writing narratives. What I have planned is to do a pre-write with the students. I show a picture or collage of pictures I have taken of objects. Kids write a description of what they see in their journals. Next in groups of 4 they discuss what they wrote. Then we come back together as a group and discuss the writings and possibly write a whole class three paragraph narrative.

Is this the right approach? The students will probably do a sloppy copy/peer edit/ and make a final copy on their Chrome books. Do I need more mini lessons on narrative writing? We have done setting and such with regular reading class another things I could do as lessons. This will be a 5 day project in double class periods of 8th ...See More
LA Teacher On 11/18/13, Not an english teacher wrote:

. You're asking them to make up a story? As in tell us what happened in this photo?

You'll find that not every child who can read can also write.... Weak readers are never strong writers and strong readers aren't necessarily strong writers.

Not having people in the photographs...See More
Nov 29, 2013


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