Reading with Partners

While we read today, we told the events of the story in order of when they happened.  We talke about what happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story.  In our reading groups, we read with partners.  Reading with partners is fun because one of us gets to act like the "teacher."  We *love* pretending to be the teacher.  

In writing, we tried an on-demand writing prompt for the first time.  On-demand writing prompts are used to show how we write independently.  We learned how our writing would be assessed and we learned how to earn a 4, a 3, a 2 or a 1.  The first graders were so excited to try to earn a 4 for their writing.  We remembered that we had to tell a true story from our lives, to write complete ideas in sentences, to use punctuation, and to use transition words.  We are such great writers!