Bus Stop Rotation

The wind howled through the window. The girl sat huddling her knees waiting for the storm to be over.  She was by herself, all alone. Her mother swept away into the hurricane. As tears dropped down her face,a cat pounced through the door. It was Ginger, the cat next door. She quickly grabbed him and hugged him like there was no tomorrow.


This was one of our quick write stories my buddy Mia and I made. Our learning intention was to understand how our choice of words create the mood of the story. We walked around the class room heading to every bus stop. Each bus stop we walked to had a piece of paper that had a sentence we had to start our story with. Next Mia and I had to come up with 5 more sentences in 5 minutes ( but on this one we did 6).

Exemplar 1

This was one of my tasks I did with Mrs. Anderson for reading. We read two stories and chose one to work on. The story I chose and read first is in black, and the words I added in are in grey. We had to try and keep the pace of the story. We were also trying to use punctuation like speech marks and commas.