In Writing Workshop, Second Grade writers are stretching both their stories and their writing skills in our current unit on Small Moment Stories. Students are learning that in addition to using the basic ingredients of dialogue, small actions, and setting in order to “show, not tell” what is happening in their stories, writers can add additional “ingredients” to Small Moment Stories in order to make our writing more powerful. Using a range of mentor texts as inspiration, writers are working to incorporate “sparkling words,” repetition, sound words, thoughts, and feelings in order to raise the level of their personal narratives. The Second Grade students and teachers are excited to welcome our newest student, Akruti Jain, to 2N.
