WRITER'S WORKSHOP MINI LESSONS

Labeling our Stories

 

Lesson 4:  What We Can Label

Gather students around the carpet area.

Tell students that today's book will help us all to become better writers.

Ask, "We've been talking and learning about labels - - what are labels?"

Facilitate discussion:

• what do they look like

• who uses them

• what are they for

• what do they tell us

Say, "Today's book will also help us learn more about labels and how to write them."

Share the title of the book.

Ask, "Do you think you can help me read this book?"

Read Of Colors and Things by Tana Hoban.

While reading, show students the illustrations, and allow them to help read the book (missing words).

Open the book again and take a picture walk, observing how adding labels will help us to read the book better.

Remind students that writers [authors and illustrators] use labels to tell their readers what something is.

Ask, "What labels could Tana Hoban have added to her book?"

Facilitate Discussion.

Say, "Lets add labels to Tana Hoban's book.  We will use post it notes, so we don't make marks in the book."

Remind students that writers [authors and illustrators] use labels to tell their readers what something is.

Page by page, work with students to add labels to the book.

Encourage students to use labels in their own writing.

Resources:

 

Of Colors and Things by Tana Hoban