I have encyclopedias in Spanish and when using the English resource materials, I read them aloud, translating into Spanish every other week, when instruction is in Spanish. I made the language of the book an option and 21 books were written in English while 11 were written in Spanish. Step 5 . Students write their stories over 5 days, using ideas teacher has outlined in brainstorming, and their own notes of the discussion. Step 6 .
Students edit their writing.
Conferences took place over 5-10 days, depending on how many revisions students needed to make. Teacher reads and makes written corrections to student stories. Students then revise their stories. During the written composition phase, I continually reviewed Word Web and KWL elements to make sure students included them. Sequence of the story was also discussed and illustrated on the chalk board.