Melville Intermediate - Collaborative Narrative Writng

This morning you need to click on this link here and go to the 'Five Alive!' Kidblog a 5th Grade Class from the USA.  From that site you will see this post of Sophies which is going to be a narrative story.  You are going to contribute one sentence to the story making sure that you follow the rules! Firstly its obviously going to be a narrative story.  Secondly you are bound by the previous post, your sentence MUST follow on in sequence and make sense on the basis of the previous post.  Otherwise the flow of the story is up to you.  When this has been completed please let Mr Webb know.

Melville Intermediate - Narrative Writing Thursday

For today's example of Narrative writing you will be traveling to the United States of America, and locating Mr Boylens class.  You will need to go to the following URL here to connect to their main page.  From there you can select one piece of narrative writing of your choice and review it.  You will have a copy of the example that we will be looking at as a class but you will need to choose one additional piece yourself.  Remember to leave the comment in the correct format to also include our address.

Remember the criteria that we are looking at - is it a narrative? What are the features that we would expect to see of narrative writing? Don't forget that you will be again choosing to complete the following tasks, an alternate title for the piece of writing, some feedback that is positive for the author and three questions that you could ask the author about the story that they have written.

Melville Intermediate - Tuesdays Narrative Writing

Today in class we are continuing to look at students narrative writing from around the world as examples to get us focussed for our last unit of writing this year. Yesterday we were looking at Emily's work in the UK. Today we are looking at the work of Sam's brother from Dunedin. Sam is a student in Dunedin at St Clairs School, in Room Nine. The original post of Sams is here, and her brothers original post is here. 

Students of Melville Intermediate have to read the narrative, create a new title for the story based on the writing, continue the story for an additional paragraph and then ask the author three questions about their narrative. The questions need to be posted in the form of comments on Sams blog or her brothers original post.

Melville Intermediate - Writing from the UK

Currently we are looking at and investigating narrative writing for our literacy work.  As part of that today we looked at piece of narrative writing written by Emily entitled 'Lost'.  You can view the original piece of work here.   Students were set the task of reading the orginal piece of work, then editing it.   They then had three tasks associated with it, to retitle it with a title that reflected the style of the writing, to add a sixth paragraph to the piece of writing in the original style and finally to come up with three questions that they could ask the author of the piece of writing.  The questions were then left to the author, from Bolton in the UK here.

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EmilyLost - slideshows