The students have been working very hard on creating realistic fiction in the past few weeks! They started by making up characters and imagining an adventure they could have. Of course, the adventure had to involve some sort of problem for the character, and then the students had to come up with a solution for the story. We read several realistic fiction books with the eyes of writers, looking for ways the authors constructed their stories. Some of us have been practicing starting our stories with dialogue 'hooks" - having the character say something to get the reader's attention!
After we had written for several days, the students got together to share what they had written. Our classmates were able to ask questions and make suggestions for changes if something wasn't clear in the stories.