Show The Reader What You're Feeling

Show Don't Tell Writing

For the month of November Team Gibbas students have been practicing writing personal narratives.  Last week students were instructed that instead of telling the reader the emotion they were feeling, they needed to show the reader the emotion by writing vivid descriptions of what their face and body was doing when they felt the emotion.  Students worked in groups of two and three and were given an emotion to create a scene depicting the feeling.  Next groups performed their scenes for each other and as a class we noticed and recorded what the actors' bodies and faces were doing.  Finally, we created an amazing anchor chart for our classroom to help us remember to show our emotions in our writing.

Common Core Writing Standard

4.3  Students will write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences using techniques such as dialogue, descriptive details, clear event sequences, and an ending conclusion.