What You Know by Heart Katie Wood Ray
Oh Boy! Permit me just get this out there… I am a control freak in my classroom! Confession is good for the soul!
I commencement started to wonder if there was more than ane way to bake this cake known as writing when I purchased this book.
And then I was fortunate enough to go run into her last week and the wheels started turning.
Confession #2: We have not made "books" in writer'south workshop. The erstwhile Mrs. Wills had her students cocky-select a topic and depict their movie (with pencil) and add together words/inventive spelling during the showtime 15 minutes of independent writing time. And so once our timer went off, they could add together color.
Overall, I was pleased with this approach, but I did feel I needed to widen my kiddos writerly life.
Then nosotros launched a more in depth look at illustrative studies. We started by revisiting books we have read previously.
My instructions were uncomplicated… "Writers, Today I want to go dorsum and look at some of our favorite books. But this time, I desire u.s. to look at them as a writer. I desire us to notice what [name of author/illustrator] did in his/her book.
On folio 79, Katie Wood Ray talks nigh the framework of her units of written report:
- Gather a stack of texts that are skilful examples of what you want to study
- Make sure the students know what it is they are studying and they are expected to write under the influence of this study.
- Immerse them in reading and talking most the gathered texts and what they noticed most how the books are written.
- Study some of them closely until they've become articulate (and can chart) about how people write this kind of text.
- Write (teacher and student) something that could go into a stack of books like the ones you have been studying.
Hither are a few:
Nosotros dear this book by Jerry Pallotta. It builds in excitement and has a surprise ending. We used this while nosotros were working on finding writing ideas.
As writers we noticed that some of the illustrations were created from a different perspective. The central image was pictured from the front, the back, the side, above, and below. AND by doing this it made the reader experience what the character was experiencing.
Nosotros also noticed that the illustrator zoomed in on certain pages. Boy, the close up of the Bluefish was scary because information technology was so huge! AND we could see its razor-precipitous teeth.
Katie Wood Ray talks about this on page102 and calls this "Crafting with Positioning Perspective".
These books provide wonderful examples of how action tin can exist depicted in illustrations. Run across the swish lines around the basketball?
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Katie Wood Ray speaks about the parallels between writing and illustrating. They are both versions of composing. Oftentimes times composing is done invisibly… in our heads. As a blogger (considering I am non a author), I oftentimes etch posts in my caput on the bulldoze domicile. Sometimes I wake upwardly with an idea, or an idea pops into my caput while I am talking with a colleague. The betoken is, while I am away from my actual writing (blogging), I am still composing.
Back to my classroom: The old Mrs. Wills had the students beginning a new piece each solar day. The "revised" Mrs. Wills provides opportunities for my students to compose on a piece of work over a period of days.
Under my document photographic camera, I modeled my own writing (this took all calendar week).
I also tried to constitute the idea that "writers think about writing even when they are not actually writing" during my morning bulletin. (The stretching words thought comes from Deanna Jump's Chit Conversation) The kids ate it upwards!Here is one (I have a ton I could share) of a student who took this on. Prior to "writing books" Miss L would typically write, "I am playing with my dog" and she would have considered herself done.
Notwithstanding, by making books she has a better developed topic.
She (like many of my students) decided to write her words on the left side of her paper and place the illustrations on the right, so you can't run into her words. They were written in typical kindergarten writing with inventive spelling… Awesome!
She worked on this book for iv days. She informed me today that she felt she was done, and wanted to beginning a new book.
Students keep their writing in a unproblematic pocket binder. You lot can run across I have placed a dark-green dot (however working) on 1 side. The other side has a red dot (washed).
All of the folders are kept in a bin up by my desk-bound. In this way, they are right at our fingertips the next day. Nosotros practise not waste material instructional time searching for our folders.
Man! This was a windy postal service. AND I didn't even capture it all. What a corking week we had in writers workshop! Are you interested in reading more than? Let me know~ I can practice some follow-upwards posts every bit our weeks progress.
Yous can see all of our writing units that are perfect for kindergarten and starting time-grade by clicking the image below.
Source: https://mrswillskindergarten.com/writers-workshop-katie-wood-ray/
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