Our student teacher, Miss Moss, engaged the students in a mini-unit about descriptive writing.  She began with identifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Students then engaged in a reading of “I Need My Monster”. This mentor text is rich in descriptive sentences, using interesting adjectives and verbs.

Then, it was time for students to write.  They began the writing process with a brainstorm web of ideas of their own imaginary monster. Next, they organized their ideas using a graphic organizer. Then, they drafted their paragraphs on a Google slide and used the success criteria to revise and edit.

The last step was to use AI technology to generate a photo of their monsters based on their writing.

Thanks, Miss Moss, for this fun, engaging writing project!

Our class is learning a lot about the tools that can be found within Google Drive.  Today we learned about Google Slides. We used the program to complete a shared writing task. Students worked in small groups to complete one step of a procedural writing task, “How to create a Remembrance Poster”. Each group was responsible for completing a slide with a picture and text to describe a specific step in the procedure. Students first needed to put the pictures in order. Then, they had to manipulate the photo. Next, they needed to decide on an appropriate transition word and details to be written. Students were reminded of what happened to the alien when specific details were not written!

We wrote a lot of good things and managed to all work on the document at the same time without too many technical problems. When we viewed the slideshow we agreed that there is room for improvement and we set our goals! Just watch how our skills grow throughout the writing unit!