Our Eric Carle author study is going great! The children are really enjoying reading all of his books and responding to them. We are learning how to quickly respond to his books in Reader's Workshop by writing our connections or favorite parts. In Writer's Workshop, we have created a Rubric, which is a way that we "grade" your child's writing. We talked about making sure you begin with a great lead sentence to include the author and title of the book. Then we went on to discuss what we would add in the middle of our writing, which was lots of details, connections and favorite parts. Our ending was to "wrap it up." That means make a good closing for your writing. "Finally" and "At Last" are great ways to tie up a piece of writing. Below are some examples of story boards that we made to retell stories and pieces of writing that we have been doing. I have also included a picture of the Rubric that we, as a class made, for Writing.
