Getting Published

For the past few weeks we have been working hard to publish our favorite piece of writing.  We spread out all our pieces and tried to pick the one that we liked so much we knew we could make it *even* better.

Our class has been so serious while we work on our publishing.  You can feel the excitement in the air!

We spent time revising and editing.  We revised to choose stronger words and use some craft, like similes and personification, that we noticed authors using.  We also revised our beginnings and endings.  Finally, we edited to make sure we remembered capital letters, ending punctuation, and word wall words.

After revising and editing, we went through some phases of publishing.  We illustrated our pages to make sure that our pictures matched our words.

We have been noticing how other authors made words "pop out" of the page by making them look special.  We decided to do the same thing.

We created our title pages, dedication pages, and even wrote a "blurb" on the back of our book. We used the Croakit app to record our names, titles, and blurbs so that our readers can scan a QR code to hear the author tell about the book!  

Listen to a sample below:

 We can't wait to share our bound books with everyone at the Exploration Celebration on April 10th!