This was a story that Dawson wrote that he is so very proud of. His teacher was brilliant in coming up with this method of story telling. She broke out the process into several steps. First, Dawson was to choose creature pictures, cut them out and color them and put them on a popcicle stick. Then we were to go outside in the trees and grass and play with them. As we play with them, we come up with a story line of what is happening, making sure that there is a problem our creature has that we can solve for them. Dawson loved this! He and Kaylee and Nathan all printed and colored them and played together and naturally there were many "conflicts" for the characters that the kids pretended to solve. As they played and replayed, Dawson came up with his storyline that he liked best. We took a picture of each piece of the story with my camera.
The next step in this process was to write down the "beginning," "middle," and "end" of the story; the middle portion containing the conflict. After getting this done, he was to read it over and captialize all the beginning letter of a sentence and all the proper nouns of characters' names. We had to look for periods at the end of the sentences and change them to questions or exclaimation points as needed. Last he used some quotation marks in a few places where he noticed his characters were speaking. After these edits, he separated his story according to the photos we took and wrote the corresponding sentences on a single sheet of lined paper. Once each of the pieces of the story were written, we added the photo that went with each piece, and his storybook was created!!
I was so proud of Dawson's hard work on this project, as well as his teacher's efforts to make this fun and exciting. He worked so hard on this project that we actually printed his book out for him to keep. Great work D!!
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