Michael the writer

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I can write

Student	Michael	Date	8 June 2008
		Observer	Yvonne (teacher)

Intended learning

Michael will write a story.

Each day we share our class news book. I write a short story about one of the children’s news or some event that the class has been involved in.

Today, the story was about Michael eating 10 pieces of toast. I had added that it was a monster breakfast and I wondered if Michael was a monster in disguise!

As I read the story to the class, I could see Michael’s reaction. He showed pleasure with a beaming smile to hear a story about himself.

When I wondered if Michael was a monster in disguise, he laughed and told us “no”.

Later that morning we went on to writing time.

When it came time for me to model writing a story on the whiteboard, I chose to write about Michael’s monster breakfast. I drew the picture and began writing.

When I came to write “Michael” in the text, I asked Michael to come and write it for me. He came straight up to the whiteboard and began. He wrote “M” and then did “role play writing” (pretend writing) to represent the rest of his name. This is a first!

Everyone was amazed and children made comments such as, “Wow, Michael that is good writing” and “Good work”. He sat back on the mat with the children with a great smile on his face.

But the best is yet to come!

Everyone went off to write their stories and, for the first time, Michael wrote his own story! Usually, he draws a picture and I write for him, but today he drew the picture and then proceeded to “write” his own story using “role play writing”. He then “read” it back to me, communicating, in a way that I understand, that it said, “I had 10 pieces of toast”. Michael then took his book and shared his story with his friends and other teachers in the school.

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