Boxed Sets

In writing workshop, students have been busy as elves working to publish their series of fiction stories as a beautiful "boxed set."

Each of us has been working to make our set of stories, all about the same main character or characters, the best it can be using the strategies we've learned. We made covers and titles for each book. We fancied up the illustrations with detail and color. We each wrote an "About the Author" page that we attached to the back of our books, modeled on some that we read in the back of some books in our classroom. We painted cereal boxes, and decorated them with tag lines, blurbs, our series titles, and of course names of the authors, inspired by some published boxed sets we looked at.

After break, we plan to visit second grade and each read some of our stories to a second grader or two. Then these will make their way home and you can be another audience for these stories!