Rylant-ish

Wow what a great two days.

Today we started to work on our first drafts of our next writing projects.  I have been so impressed so far with the writing.  I keep telling the students that when I read these projects I want to find Cynthia Rylant-ish writing.  As the students were writing today, we started to share our writing on the document camera.

I was blown away with what the class was producing.  Each project I got to share you could see evidence of how looking at Cynthia Rylant's writing has affected these projects.  I hope you get a chance to look at these first draft projects.  If you do, make sure to ask the students to show you what they are doing like Cynthia Rylant.

We are also continuing to read Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin.  The book is amazing.  Grace Lin tells the story by having characters tell a story in the middle of the book.  I love this story within a story structure.  The stories the characters are the most interesting part of the books so far.  One of the stories explained why there was only one sun in the sky and another story told us about why the rooster crows with the morning sun.  I hope the class is enjoying the book.

Going to keep it short tonight.  I hope you are all off to a great start to your week.