Stellar 2nd Grade Sweethearts: It's Feeling More Like Fall!

Ahh...it is finally cooling down! Yesterday I rocked my new mustard colored deep v-neck sweater to our neighborhood block party. It felt sooo good to wear skinny jeans and a sweater, drink a little cider, and sit around a bonfire. Bring on all things fall!

This week we are diving into beginning of the year assessments. We have a math assessment, three writing prompts examining narrative, opinion, and information styles, and the SRI! (Did I mention, it's only second grade?!) To help my little ones along, Monday and Tuesday of this week I am reviewing narrative writing before administering the 3 day (yes, that's right! 3 day!) narrative writing assessment. The first day of the assessment, the students brainstorm their topic and use a graphic organizer to sketch and write a few details about the beginning, middle, and end of their story. On day 2, the children use their graphic organizer to begin writing their narrative piece on lined paper. The third day, students edit, revise, and write the final draft of their piece. We use a district created writing rubric to assess their work.

We are only 5 days into the school year and I need to review components of narrative writing before we dive into the assessment. No big deal;) I created a short unit using Brian Lies (pronounced "Lees") amazing book, Bats at the Library. In the unit, I included a Narrative Writing anchor chart to display in the writing center. I plan to post some of the students' narrative writing pieces with the anchor chart as samples. I also created a graphic organizer to record the beginning, middle, and end of the story as well as a chart to keep track of interesting words in the story. Head on over to my Teachers Pay Teachers store to download the unit for your classroom!

{Bats at the Library Narrative Writing Unit}