Currently investigating narratives and inspired by an introductory session with local journalist, author and duck farmer, Greg Clarke, our Year 1/2 students published their own duck based or farming stories. Greg very generously came back into the classroom to review the stories and critique the books. He was very impressed with the standard of writing and told the students they did a great job. The range of interesting titles and original ideas was a standout and Greg reinforced the importance of an engaging title or first sentence to encourage the reader to want to know more. It was obvious that the students had followed Greg’s recommendation to work hard editing their work with ‘one idea, one sentence’. He proposed that part of the editing process was to read the story out loud to yourself because if you get lost, your reader has no chance to follow your narrative. You could have heard a pin drop when several students read their publications to Greg with intriguing titles like: “The stuck duck”, “The duck who wanted some peace and quiet”, “A duck in the city”, “Missing ducks”, “The duck that wanted to go to Fiji” and “The sneaky fox”. Our Year 1/2 students are very fortunate to have someone with Greg’s expertise help them become more authentic storytellers and authors. Thanks Greg! Comments are closed.
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