Publishing!

Room 221 authors are publishing their first story! The authors learned how important it is to do a final edit of their writing to make it easier for the reader to read. For 15-20 minutes, Room 221 was buzzing as third grade writers read their stories out loud to themselves and marked checks where they found mistakes in capitalization, punctuation and spelling. When they finished finding the mistakes, children went back through their writing and fixed them all up. The children spent 45minutes in the computer lab typing their carefully edited pieces into the computer.

We will keep an anthology of the stories in the classroom for all to read. We will also send home a copy of your child's story so they can share it at home!