Telling A Story

In Writing Workshop today we worked on telling a story in our writing instead of naming the parts. We began with a mentor text, "Good Dog Carl". It is a wordless book that I used to model telling a story. I read a few pages and named the parts of the picture and asked the kids how that sounded, good story or not? The answer was NO! Then I read it and used the pictures to tell a story. We decided that was a much better story than the first one. After that it was the kids turn, I gave them each a partner and a wordless book and they tried telling a story with the pictures. Tomorrow we will be ready to write our own stories! :)