Your goal today is to revise your piece that developed from a special day and the read aloud of Patricia MacLachlan's "All the Places to Love," (April 1) or an event from your life map essay with a theme, memorable details and a moral (April 7).
With both of these prompts, our focus was the ideas & content trait. We also worked on sentence fluency and varying the placement of prepositional phrases in your writing, much like Patricia did in her story. She also used very memorable details, like the trout sparkled brightly in the water, which was another focus of ours.
Your purpose today is to take either one of these pieces and revise them. We are hoping to get some of our work published on the writing fix website: http://writingfix.com/Picture_Book_Prompts/AllPlacesLove4.htm. On this website, there are lesson ideas for teachers and the six traits of writing using all kinds of books. The website also likes to post student samples, and it is in need of some for the Patricia MacLachlan special days to love lesson. Here are the student directions for this lesson: http://writingfix.com/Picture_Book_Prompts/AllPlacesLove2.htm. Reading through and following those will help us meet the requirements for what they're looking for in a student sample.
Writing with a theme is something else we worked on this week. Most of our theme and moral papers were very good. Your piece for that assignment might transform into something for this that could be published.
Remember to use memorable details, focus your writing to a narrow topic, write with a theme and purpose, and vary your sentence structure. Save your paper into omni storage, Kranzusch folder, under WP #4 folder.
When you are done with your piece for publishing, read the next post.
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