RE: Instruction
We looked at the students who had difficulty writing the narrative. We found that part of the problem was that those students were not always keeping up with the daily writing assignments and another reason was that the focus this year was mainly on writing a five paragraph essay rather than a narrative. We felt that there may not have been enough practice within the genre.
Next steps:
- During the Jacqueline Woodson author study, infuse more writing of short fiction.
- Revise units of study next year to include more narrative writing
- Rather than use a teacher pre-written story to model the mystery story, model using a "class" group model to showcase the writing process
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