Preparing For Publication

We are publishing narratives. First we selected a piece to revise for publication and since then have been busy revising. We have written powerful beginnings and modified our endings to include dialogue and feeling. A huge part has been ensuring our stories are "easy to read." To do this we used a checklist (picture provided below) to make sure our writing is neat enough to read, has lots of letters for  each word, includes words from the word wall, has spaces between words, includes lowercase letters where appropriate, and includes uppercase letters at the beginning of each sentence. Next week, as part of our writing celebration, we will be reading them to a third/fourth grade partner!