Narrative Elements

I think my favorite quote for teaching has to be "Beg, borrow, and steal!" I wish that I could be more creative, but I think it doesn't matter what I come up with, someone else has already done it better. But that is the beauty of teaching - teacher's love to share and I love to take! :)  The past couple weeks we have been teaching narrative elements and so to summarize what we had been learning we created narrative elements sandwiches. I stole this idea from a wonderful teacher Alyssa Blake. It was great to see the kids faces when they read "Create a sandwich" for their Reader's Workshop objectives, "Do we really get to make sandwiches?! Can we eat them?"

Narrative Elements Tacos!

My really amazing friend, Sarah Mancusi also did narrative elements only her class created tacos! Isn't Pinterest great for finding good ideas? I don't know how I would come up with anything fun without it. Anyway, Sarah used the book Come On, Rain! and so of course I did too. I LOVE this book! We were also able to use it again in writing to talk about good word choice. This book has fantastic word choice!