The students in Mrs. Syverson's classroom have set up folders in front of them to create private writing spaces where they can concentrate on their own work. They, too, are working on personal narrative. Most of them are using paper with an illustration box and a few lines for test. A few are excited to point out to me that they are writing longer stories now and have moved on to paper with more lines.
Mrs. Syverson conferences quietly with individual students, so quietly it is difficult for me to make out entirely what she is saying. This, I know, demonstrates respect for her students and the process they are engaged in. I am again amazed at the attention and determination these young writers demonstrate as they struggle to incorporate so many different abstract concepts at once in their writing (spacing between words, no spaces between letters within a word, listening for sounds and recording them in order from left to right, tiny little dots to indicate the end of a sentence, etc.).
I visit with the authors of SUPERMAN, DARTBOARD, and THUMPER POND (all posted on this blog). These young authors demonstrate such pride as they read their works to me.
When Mrs. Syverson announces that it is time to get ready for specials, there are audible groans. The students do not want writing time to be done! Wow!
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