After several weeks of really hard work, my students celebrated their published realistic fiction stories (written in Spanish). I am so proud of their work. For this unit, I decided to create a classroom anthology; therefore, all my students’ stories were carefully put together and bound to make a ‘book.’ I made several copies of […]
Developing Detailed Scenes for Our Realistic Fiction Stories
For the past 2 weeks, my students have been working really hard by developing their characters in detail (adding both internal traits and external features), writing story mountains, and starting to develop detailed scenes for their stories. In my last post, I had included some strategies my 4th graders used to generate ideas about their […]
Writing Realistic Fiction in Spanish
This week, my students began a new writing unit ‘Realistic Fiction.’ It has been quite an interesting unit thus far as this genre requires them to have a really strong/more sophisticated vocabulary. They are writing in Spanish; therefore, at times they are scrambling to find the right words to describe their characters. We began with […]
