Mini Lessons for the Writing Workshop

Today the students and I took a look at different kinds of leads authors use to enter their stories. You can see the kids identified them and labeled them accordingly to how they saw E. B. White and Katherine Patterson enter their stories. The students decided that E. B. White used a question, dialogue and tension to start his story Charlotte’s Web. They can now go off and attempt these types of leads on their own in their own stories. More lessons can be viewed at my flickr photos.