We have been blitzing our students in all the grades with a new writing concept this year, and it includes really hammering it home that you must enhance your writing with lots of imagery. It seems to be working:
One of my co-workers told us this story about her Kindergarten son (who goes to our school):
The Big Brother (5) and the Little Sister (2 and a half) were playing on the sofa under a blanket, laughing and goofing around. Suddenly the Big Brother came up for air and yelled, "Ooooh, [Little Sister] farted!!"
So Little Sister jumped off onto the floor and laughed, "Yeah, I fawrted. I smell like a pig!"
Big Brother replied, "No, [Little Sister], you have to include DETAILS: "I smell like a pig in mud!"
She told us this story and we totally died laughing. And then we were really excited--he's been paying attention during writing! Yeah!!
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