We read "old" students' small moment writing pieces this week and worked together with partners to find features of such stories. We discovered that small moment stories have many common characteristics. They are all personal narratives and about things that has already happened. They are stretched out over several pages with clear beginning, middle and ends. They also contain many different kinds of describing words and dialogue.
We use the watermelon as a visual aid to help us find good topics. The watermelon is a large fruit and some story topics are too big and too long because they only allow us to tell the story as a sequence of events rather than "digging" deeper into the feelings, the settings, or what something looked like. We use the seed inside the watermelon as an example of the story we want to write.
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