Writing Pattern Books

We are getting ready to wrap up our first writing unit with Pattern Books. We have been learning that readers can read pattern books but they can write them too! Your writers have taken the many diagrams they created and are turning them into pattern books. For example, if using the sunflower diagram, their pages might read;
I see a seed.
I see a stem.
I see a leaf.
This work allows for great success as they are using the most common heart words we have learned. The focus is on spaces and writing all the sounds they hear! As you saw at conferences, we will be adding a final piece into their thinking and learning binders as we wrap up the unit. We will be moving on to writing personal narratives in the coming month. Be looking for their pattern book and diagram writing pieces to be coming home.