Today was a very important day. Students received their first Narrative writing prompt, which was--Write about a time when someone said you did a great job. In class, we discussed how important it is to brainstorm a topic before writing. THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE. So below I have attached a couple of things. The first is the actual prompt page so you will know what it looks like on STAAR. The second is a list of possible story ideas and a brainstorming bubble map. The third is a five senses map, which we will talk about on Tuesday. Please feel free to comment with questions so the entire community can have the same questions answered.
Now, if you look sentences below the picture, it says to WRITE ABOUT A TIME. These are the key words that let the students know the prompt is asking for a personal story.
After the students have read the prompt, they are supposed to come up with a short list of possible stories to write. This list is usually between 3 and 5 ideas. Once they have made this list, they are to pick one and create a "bubble brainstorm." In the middle bubble, the students basically answer the prompt with one complete sentence. In this case, mine is "I am writing about the time when my brother told me good job because I helped him kill rats while he was mowing his yard." Every other
bubble in the map is simply a detail from the story. 
This is going to be the last step of brainstorming. Students should create a five senses map where they try and list as many details from the stories as they relate to the five senses a person experiences throughout a story. We will talk about this in class on August 24th, 2015.
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