Publishing

This month we spread out all our writing and chose a personal narrative story from our writing workshop folders.  We chose a piece that we could do more work with to make it even better.

We exploded moments in our stories just like the authors did in The Girl on the High Diving Horse and Crab Moon.

After we exploded the most exciting moment in our story, we made sure our stories made sense.  We also read our stories to each other and added parts to make sure any readers' questions were answered.

We also created beginnings that hooked our readers, and endings that let our readers go gently.

When we were done we got the typed copy of our story and we were ready to illustrate.

In the past few weeks we have illustrated our books, designed endpapers, created titles that make others want to read our books, and added blurbs on the back.  If you want to read our books, you'll need to come to the Exploration Celebration on April 20th!