The rocking chair is where I read aloud each day. The class sits down in front and writes down their thinking about the book we are sharing. I love the conversations that go on during read aloud. We give the students time to turn and talk with each other. They share their thinking and bounce ideas of each other. Then they share their ideas with me. I am always amazed at the thinking that students have during read aloud.
The rocking chair is also where we come to share our writing. Nothing is better than listening to the writing that the authors in our room create. Today was one of those days where the writing blows you away. We had looked at the book Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant.
This is one of my favorite books from Cynthia Rylant. It contains such amazing little bits of writing. One of my favorite little tricks that she uses in the texts is something the class called echo sentences. Here is an example of an echo sentence. It is not the best example from the book but it was all I could find tonight:
The wind is brushing his borrowed head and the sun is warming his borrowed hands and clouds are floating across his button-borrowed eyes.
While looking at this sentence plus some others, the class realized that Rylant echoed some words or groups of words on the page. On the example above you can see how she echoed the word borrowed throughout the text.
The class saw enough and new it was time to go out and give it a try. The results were exciting. I got stories about a pumpkin and a turtle and a toad and so many different ideas. Each piece of writing had an echo sentence or maybe two.
I hope you get a chance to look at some of the writing in these writer's notebooks. It makes your day to see these amazing authors and how they play with words.
Hope you are having a great week.
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