Through the work on a collaborative piece about our playground, the children practiced picturing one writing topic in their mind, planning a piece, and representing their unique thoughts and ideas. We noticed and discussed the differences in representations; the details each writer added were slightly different, but represented the shared topic of our playground.
We began our work with a nonfiction book about playgrounds, showing various kinds of playgrounds through photographs. On the large chart paper we planned our piece. All 18 of the children closed their eyes and pictured our playground. We discussed the important parts of our playground and broke up our reflections to fit on three pages. The children agreed that the dinosaur stairs were important - talking me through the direction that the dinosaur faces and how the stairs are shaped. I never realized the importance of the dinosaur! The children also discussed the importance of our white fence outside of our classroom door, adding the fence to page three.
Using white boards and dry erase markers, the writers worked on each page while I took pictures, documenting our process. On Friday, I printed the photographs and children's words, putting our book together for an exciting and empowering read aloud.
Page 1 - Our play structure. There are stairs to climb!
Page 2 - The swings and trees. We like to swing with friends.
Page 3 - We play in the sand and run on the grass. We have fun!
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