Deep Into Stories

A careful look at the previous post let's you in on a story REtelling lesson led by Miss Jess.  After reading the classic, Mrs.Wishy Washy to the class, each student reconstructed the story with pictures and words on a paper strip.  The challenges of placing the story events in order and matching pictures with words are two of the ways we are preparing for writing our own stories based on real life events next week.  Below you can see a different type of retelling activity that goes with the story Harry The Dirty Dog by Gene Zion.  In this "old favorite" we stressed that really great stories, the ones we love to hear again and again and come to know by heart, often have a very recognizable beginning, middle and end.  Hopefully this structure will come through in the our original stories in the weeks to come!