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Second graders tell their own tall tales

By Amy Koehn’s Second Graders practicing using story structures, like a beginning, middle
and end and characters and a setting. We used the elements
For Fairy Tale Friday, we learned about the elements of
a fairy tale. Also we learned about the parts of fairy tales that of a fairy tale in our writing.
By Sophia Resman
we could use in our story next time. We read different kinds
of fairy tales like fractured fairy tales. Also we compared a lot
At Fairy Tale Friday we made cardboard castles for fun
of different versions. We read fairy tales, tall tales and frac-
and to show our creativity. We also used technology to
tured fairy tales. It made reading more fun. Also it made
understand some castle words and hung them in the hall-
writing fun for us and we liked it. It also made one way eas-
way. We read our fairy tales in front of lots of people we had
ier to write for us. By Benny Flanders
an option if we were nervous we could ask a friend to give us
courage so we would not be nervous but no one did and as a
Part of our fairy tale unit is Reader’s Theater. Reader’s
reward we got cake! Some people dressed up for Fairy Tale
Theater helps us by building up teamwork. It helps us by
Friday Natalie and Olivia dressed up as fairies Karleigh and
reading words we don’t know. It also helps us read better.
Kami dressed up as princesses, Alex dressed up as a prince
Reader’s Theater also helps us to not read like robots and to
and Jackson dressed up as a king. We did Fairy Tale Friday to
have fun. By Christian Gorzelanny
show off what we know. By Jude Webster
We wrote
The authors of this article were chosen by our class.
fairy tales and
The class used a tall tale writing example to judge quality
tall tales because
of work. These four students were voted on by the class to
this helped us by
write the article for the Pride and Progress.
helping us prac-
tice spelling,
capitals, punctu- MISSION OF PAW PAW PUBLIC SCHOOLS
ation and hand-
writing. Also all Paw Paw Public Schools will provide every student
jobs need to with the opportunity to maximize his or her learning
write. It was fun potential in a spirit of cooperation and shared purpose
among students, parents, community, staff and the
PP Board of Education.

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