The Important Thing

Now that everyone finally knows the steps that a writer goes through to create a piece of writing we can get back to our ideas trait. Last week I read the kids The Important Book. This is a book that tells important details about ordinary things: a spoon, grass, wind, etc. The purpose was to teach writers to write a main idea sentence and then to write details about that main idea. We made a class writing and wrote the important things about a pencil. They had great ideas!! Next, everyone chose a picture of a classmate. They had to think of 2-4 important details about their friend. They did an amazing job...everyone had amazing things to say about their classmates. Once everyone was done the writer read it to the class and then I hung them up on our door. They have gotten LOTS of compliments about their writing pieces. Way to go 2nd graders!!