Over the past few weeks we have been doing an author's study about Mo Willems. First, we started out by reading through a number of his books. As we read through them I told them that they were to be on the look out for their favorite Mo Willems book. During this time in writing we started to talk about a different type of writing, opinion writing. Students learned about what an opinion is, how to state it in their writing, and then how they need to come up with good reasons to back their opinions.
Once we had finished reading through a number of Mo Willems books, it was time to pick which one they thought to be his best book! We then started the writing process by planning out our opinion pieces, then we took our planning and created what we call our slopping copy. After this students met with me to revise and edit their piece so that they could finally publish it for the hallway.
This was a very long process, but students really learned to love a new found author, state their opinion, and write good reasons to back their opinion. I am very proud of all of their work, and I'm even more excited to see how much fun they had reading and rereading Mo Willems books. There is nothing more enjoyable then seeing a student love reading and enjoy a good book!
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| Mo Willems is great for teaching students how to read with expression, ask your kids about one of their favorite characters, Pigeon! |
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| Buddy reading one of the 3 Knuffle Bunny books. |
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| "Banana!" - This one got a laugh every time, read We are in a Book to find out what that is all about. |
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| The Duckling Get's a Cookie, a new, cute character is introduced into Pigeons life. |
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| Our published opinion pieces, we can't wait to share them with you at Parent-Teacher Conferences, April 17th and 18th |
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