Writing This Week - Start Smart

We are finishing Start Smart this week. This unit has introduced the students to the structure of Writing this year and provided steps and strategies the students will use this year in Writing. We reviewed editing and revising and discussed the marks we'll use when we improve our writing. We also looked at several prompts that represent the prompts the students will write on throughout the year. This week they are writing about a neighborhood littered with trash and what they will do to solve the problem. They will read and analyze the prompt, organize their thoughts and respond in their Writer's Notebook. They'll edit and revise their work and have a conference with their teacher. This will match a typical week when we'll be writing to prompt and working on different writing skills. I have provided a link on my teacher page to the resources we've used this week. It will be up by the end of the week.