Invitation to a Thinking Party

This week we talked about the connection between reading and writing.  We reviewed what good readers do when they are reading . . . . we remembered that they make connections, they visualize or make pictures in their minds and they ask questions while they are reading.  We then tried to answer the question of why writers write.  After much conversation we realized writers write to share information.  Sometimes they want to tell us about something they know, sometimes they want to share information about a place they have traveled to and sometimes they want to take us on an imaginary adventure!  Good writers make us THINK!  Their writing invites us to make connections, ask questions and make pictures in our minds.  Today we made invitations inviting others to read our Journals, our class blog and our individual student blogs!  We invite anyone to read any of our writing.

When you read our writing we are hoping that it will encourage you to make connections to events in your life, help you make pictures in your head and ask questions.  We are working at making our writing more "inviting" to the reader! Don't forget to leave us comments on our blog!  We love to read them.