Getting kids to know how to ask ?s

We are working on writing narratives or stories about real things that have happened to us in our own lives. My students pair share a story each day after I share with them a story from my life. The only rules are that the whole story has to be about something that has only happened to you ONE time and you have to be in ONE place the whole time you are sharing the story. We are working on trying to share who, what, where, when, and why during our story.

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I laminate this sheet and pass them out to students to use with a dry erase marker.  While their partner reads the story they have written the other student checks off the questions they heard the writer answer.  Then they ask their writing partner any of the questions that weren't addressed in their small moment story.  This helps students know what they need to add to their story.  It also helps kids to really listen while their partner reads the story he or she wrote.

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