We discussed yesterday, the importance of details. While introducing the term adjective, (to add to our budding vocabulary), we talked about how authors paint pictures in our minds with words. Thus, our fantastic learning experience!
First, we illustrated the sentence The dog ran. After our comparisons, we realized that we all drew different dogs. Gabby had spots and John S's dog was very large! Then we illustrated the sentence The large black fluffy dog ran. Wouldn't you know, our dogs looked similar? The magic paintbrush of words!
We will continue to study this idea, of adding words or what authors commonly call "elaboration". Students will be encouraged to add details and be specific or elaborate, in their writing. Nathan's story about a friend named Gus has already improved!
As we continue to work on our writing, we will publish student pieces! (Oh, excuse me...First grade author's pieces!)
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