KZE students continue their inquiry process in writing. We focus on family story writing this past week. We read mentor texts “Arthur’s Family Vacation” by Marc Brown, “The Trip Back Home” by Janet Wong, and “Pictures from Our Vacation” by Lynne Perkins. We shared what we noticed in these books, created a noticing chart, and chose four things we noticed to try it out in our own writing. One of our notice was “authors tell what happened in order.” But we didn’t know how. So we had a close study session by going back to the mentor texts. We found out that writers use sequential words (words that tell us when and tell what happened in order). We added all the useful sequential words in our noticing chart to remind us to include them in our writing as well. We are working very hard as writers and can’t wait to share our family stories soon.
