As we move into the holiday season we have moved into a new unit in Writers’ Workshop.  We will be focusing on fictional narratives.  The first step was to think about characters and their traits.

We read the story: Olive the other Reindeer. As we read we recorded character traits we noticed about the main character, Olive.  We also recorded ideas from the text that led to our thinking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then it was time to create our own characters that will star in our own creative stories.

Students first wrote about their characters and then drew pictures.  We used Chatterpix to publish our thinking.  Here is the video created about Olive, the other reindeer.  Look back tomorrow for more holiday characters!