The students practice using elaborative detail to make their stories more exciting. These young authors share their writing in author's circle. Some children make books on their own and share them with the class. May. In February and May first graders write to a narrative prompt. These writings are placed in each child's literacy folder and passed to the next grade level.
Parents can encourage writing at home.
Writing notes to your child and having them write back to you gives your child a real reason for writing. Keeping a journal on a trip or recording in a personal journal or diary after a family outing helps your youngster get better at writing. The second grade teachers are again excited about teaching their children how to write using the Empowering Magical Writes Program. The program allows us to teach techniques for writing interesting, exciting, attention grabbing beginnings, writing elaborative detail and descriptions. The children are learning how to create suspense and writing fully elaborated main events.