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what to write
By Angie

I agree that there is a lot more support for Reading than Writing. It can be tough some days to think of topics. What I've really been trying to do is tie it all together, so to speak. For instance, we read a shared reading
story last week called Nate the Great: San Francisco Detective. So one day we discussed what it takes to be a detective and the children wrote about why they would or would not like detective work. Another day they wrote to compare and contrast San Francisco and the city we live in. Another topic was writing about solving a personal mystery and how they did it (like a time they

lost something and had to discover where it was). The weeks prior we were learning about the Solar System, so they did a lot of writing about space travel, being astronauts, etc. I find that when I can make it tie in to what we're studying, it has more meaning to them. It also shows me how much they understand about a story or theme since they have to use what they have learned as a basis for writing.