The third graders are such a fast working group of children that we are moving right along on our Mystery Writing Unit. After we completed the brainwork and Think and Touch, I was able to give the children most of our time together to plan and begin writing their own mystery stories. They will have two weeks to work on writing and then we'll get to publishing.
I told them it is OK to start typing their stories, but not to worry about fancy fonts, paging, pictures or anything beyond getting the words on to the page. Parents are allowed to type for the children as long as you type exactly what your child has written. For some children dictation works well also. But again, please type exactly what your child says. You might ask them about dialog punctuation if they start giving a lot of back and forth dialog. I will be covering that next week.
If you have a flash drive for your child, please send it in with them next week. We will be going to the computer lab to begin typing. If your child has already begun typing at home, please send the document on the flash or you can email it to me and I can open it for them in the computer lab.
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