Wanted Posters and The Start of Writing Power

Our last Pirate activity were wanted posters. The students were quite excited about them, and though they are pretty simple, some of them were quite funny!

We also started Writing Power this week, and our first activities was making invitations. We talk about how the writer and the reader are in a very close relationship and how the writer always keeps the reader in mind when writing their stories. We also talk about how our writing should invite the reader in and make them want to keep reading what we are writing. To do this we made invitations inviting our readers to a "Thinking Party"! Students understand that getting an invitation to a party is an exciting thing and that excitement should translate to their readers from their writing. Our next lesson is on Brain Pockets! Stay tuned!!