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Strategy
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Debbie Rastin
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Here are some ideas gleaned from a 4-blocks course:
- Ask students to complete a thought or opinions on the same topic (like the best thing about grade 2 is....) and then guess who wrote each answer.
- After reading a book, ask the children what kind of person that they think the author is. What might s/he like to do in spare time?
- Take a simple sentence and discuss what you could do to it to make it YOURS. eg. I have a pet.
- Check out greeting cards to hear the voice of the authors.
- Read books written by two different authors (eg. Dr. Suess and Robert Munsch) to compare the differences in voice, and how each author has his/her own distinct voice.
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Stacy Morris
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For the Record
- Students brainstorm a new story or choose a story they have already written.(A real experience works best.)
- Using tape recorders (microphones for the real HAMS) have the child tell the story, not read the story.
- As a part of a listening center, have them and others
listen to how they told the story. There are certain elements in our speech that do not come across when we write.
I tell students we break some rules sometimes when we speak and it's alright.
- Have students use the recorded version as their draft, and get it down on paper. (Natural Voice)
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Stacy Morris
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StoryTellers: Increase the amount of story telling that takes place in your room.
- Invite storytellers.
- Read as a storyteller.
- Do comparison and contrast between a storyteller's version and a straight reading of a piece. What we hear as writers has a natural tendency to come out through us at some point.
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