The students in Ms. Palladino’s second grade class at Harbor Hill School are drawing upon everything they learned from writing small moment stories and studying the work of favorite published authors, including Judith Viorst, Jane Yolen and Vera B. Williams, as they learn to write well-elaborated short stories.
The Common Core State Standards require second graders to “write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.”
In this writing unit of study, students immerse themselves in realistic fiction texts in order to gather possible story ideas and create believable stories of their own. They then select their favorite pieces to revise, edit and share.
