Creating a Story Pattern
This lesson lets students expand on the creative ideas from their work with quilt patterns.
Allow students to choose a Story Pattern from one identified in the daily readings they would like to extend and recreate. (See Secrets in the Codes.) Students may choose from one of the four Story Pattern Printables below or may create their own pattern (with teacher approval). Students may use as many pages as they need, the teacher acts as an editor and gives out each page after a student's previous pages have had a quick review. Kindergarten students may use invented spelling or the teacher to take down a student's dictation for them using a yellow highlighter which the students then trace over in colored markers at their seats. First Graders may need help applying phonics and sounding out their words. Second Graders should write with a pencil and be able to use a dictionary to help them correct spelling after the teacher edits a page.
All books must have the following format:
Front Cover with title, author's name and illustration (Completed after book is written)
Title Page with title, author's name and illustration and date of completion
Dedication Page
Story Pages in order with numbers
Back Cover with Author's Page and Self portrait or photo on inside(Completed after book is written)
Story Pattern Printables:
A House is a House for Me
Brown Bear, brown bear, what do you see?
It Looked Like Spilt Milk
The House That Jack Built
More sophisticated writers may choose to pattern a story of the Underground
Railroad after the Ox Cart Man, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a poem, or
a song.
on to Sky Signs
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