Children's Writing

Franklin stories have become a favorite in my classroom.  We have incorporated a number of activities in our daily routines that relate to Franklin and his friends.  We have looked at the beginning, middle and end of the stories and discussed the consistency of all of the stories.  A consistent factor of all the stories is that they start with things Franklin can do, it is then followed by the focus of the story.  The story continues with an adventure or a problem and how they solve their problem and then ends with a lesson or something learned.  The stories also have more than one character involved.  The last component we discussed was that the illustrations matched the text.
After identifying the structure of the Franklin stories the children brainstormed topics that they could write about.  A small group of children decided to write a story titled, "Franklin in the Rocket Ship".  The children orally composed the story and I scripted for them.  The children also did all of the illustrations.

 

Franklin can button buttons, zipper zippers and tie shoes.  But he always wanted to ride a rocket.

He wanted to see aliens and go to different planets.  He always to see the stars and he never went to space before.

Franklin invited his friends to make a real live rocket, even snail.  They made the rocket out of metal and they worked for 300 hours.

With Franklin's friends they flew off the Space.  They saw pirates and ships and water and mermaids.  They saw Mercury and Venus and then landed on Mars.  Ther was aliens on Mercury that lived in houses that looked like oranges.  Their favorite color was orange.

When Franklin and his friends looked at the  aliens they decided to go home.  They had a map to get back home and they saw some nice fish and birds and then finally they were home.

When they got home they went to Goose's house and made a puzzle of dinosaurs.

 

 

Submitted by Michelle Bezubiak at St. Monica School

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