Writing Workshop Part 2

In a previous post, I talked about what my 6th grade daughter did during our recent writing workshop and shared her fractured fairy tale. Today, I want to talk about what my 2nd grade son did during our recent writing workshop and share his fractured fairy tale.

My 2nd grader already had a really good start on his fractured fairy tale before our writing workshop began. He knew what was going to happen in his story from the beginning to the end and he was about halfway done with the pictures for his story. Each of his pictures corresponded to an important event in his story and were a way for him to organize his story. D used the time during our writing workshop to:

• finish drawing and coloring all of the pictures for his story, "The Three Little Goompas and the Big, Bad Piranha Plant"
• dictate his story to me word by word, page by page, which I wrote on the white board in our schoolroom for him exactly as he dictated the story to me
• after dictating a page of his story to me, he wrote down the story from the white board in his very best handwriting

D is SO proud of his story! He insisted that I read it aloud as part of our school day and shared it page by page with his dad. Here is the text of his story:

The Three Little Goompas and the Big, Bad Piranha Plant

One day there were three little goompas. They were brothers. They wanted to find a house.

The first little goompa found a house made of turkey sticks.

The second little goompa found a house made of nachos.

The third little goompa found a house made of silverware.

One day, a piranha plant came out of a warp zone. And he gobbled up the first little goompa's house.

And then, the piranha plant came out of another warp zone and gobbled up the second little goompa's house.

Then, the piranha plant came out of a warp zone and tried to gobble up the third little goompa's house but he couldn't. He got a fork stuck in his mouth.

And they lived happily ever after!

***The cover and the last page of D's story are shown at the top of this post. If you want to see the rest of the story, page by page, you can link to it at Photobucket using the link below.

http://s645.photobucket.com/albums/uu176/samvach87/Fractured%20Fairy%20Tale%20by%20D/