Ms. Downey's Authors' Party

Writing is an integral part of the first grade curriculum and a great source of excitement to beginning learners.  In order to give these young authors motivation to write, they are given the opportunity to publish stories.  We go through the process of selecting a topic, writing a rough draft, editing the work, publishing the story on the computer and finally, illustrating the finished product.  After all of this hard work, we like to have our parents in to listen to the stories at our Authors' Party.

Devon and Travis read their published books to their moms.  Our class had an Authors' Party in the Ruder library.
Mikaela's parents are a captive audience as Mikaela reads her masterpiece.

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