After the ‘Our Farming Community, Enviro Stories’ investigation and inspired by an interview session with local journalist, author and duck farmer, Greg Clarke, our Year 3/4 students crafted their own duck based stories as either a pop up book, a spiral bound book or through book creator on an ipad. Greg very generously offered to come back into the classroom to review the stories and critique the books at the end of term. He was very impressed with the standard of writing and told the students they did a great job. He really liked the use of synonyms, for example, when describing the initial smelly car trip home with ducklings, one student wrote that “The car stank like 1 million garbage trucks!” Greg commended students on their originality, factual recall, the use of words effectively, and writing from a different perspective. Once again Greg stressed the importance of editing, sometimes rewriting 8-10 times if necessary and to read the story out loud to help you edit the work. Esha Crole was our award winning author who was presented with Greg and Jodi’s “Just Duck” cookbook. Our Year 3/4 students are very fortunate to have someone with Greg’s expertise help them become more authentic storytellers and authors. Comments are closed.
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