The students in my second grade class were recently given a district writing prompt that they were to complete. The prompt went something like this: you are on a playground and you find a key write a story about what happens next. Most of the students in the class simply rewrote the lion the witch and the wardrobe. As the teacher was reading through all of the she realized all of the students were having the same problem. They were using previous knowledge but they were not changing what they had previously read.
In order to solve the problem the teacher that I am working with decided to do a writers workshop with the students. They all were to take a story that the class would be familiar with and then they had to make it their own. Everyone was to share their story with the class and the class would try to guess what the original story was. I felt that this was good pratctice for the students.
Has anyone seen anything like this done? What are your teachers completing for writes workshops?
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Alicia,
I have seen something like this within my classroom but my experience was a little different. My teacher found that during the practice writing prompt that some of the students had great ideas but implementing their ideas as a concrete beginning,middle and end was an issue. So, just like your teacher, my teacher did a minilesson working with select pieces of the students work using the overhead. This seemed to really help to build knowledge and structure to their stories. It was really interesting to see the transformation and differences between the first writing prompt and the second!
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