It sure was a treat to witness how engaged my students were as they wrote Halloween stories with their jack-o-lantern balloon friends. After my students created jack-o-lanterns with orange balloons, black marker and green ribbon, they were pretty excited to utilize all the creative writing tricks we have focused on in writer's workshop. Some of the writing strategies that we have focused on that good writers use include: providing details (who, what, when, where, why and how), include a beginning, middle, and end, find a creative way to introduce your story and an even more creative way to close your story, use common first grade sight words spelled correctly, use good adjectives to describe nouns, and include correct punctuation. It was a great day. So to answer the popular question on Halloween, trick or treat? I would describe our day as both a treat as students were engaged and received some sweet prizes in treat bags, as well as full of tricks as students utilized all their writing tricks (strategies) to create great stories.
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