Chatfield's Sixth Grade Readers and Authors: October 2009

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Patricia Polacco Author Study

Students have read and discussed several Patricia Polacco books over the past few weeks. As a culminating activity, students wrote a letter to Polacco explaining what they liked, learned, were inspired by or connected with as they read her books. See the comments link below to read their letters.

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Our Territories Word Clouds

In Writer's Workshop students created a "Territories List". Our territories list is a place we can go when we are trying to figure out what we are going to write next. It's our ideas bank. The list helps us be more organized, productive and focused as a writer. It's a constant reminder of who we are and what we know and care about.
Students combined their list with a friend's and created a word cloud. You may view our word clouds below.
Enjoy our thoughts, special places, hobbies, interests, names of people we care about and love, and most of all... Maybe you will be inspired by our ideas, pick up a pen and write!