Third grade teacher Lynn Brown looks on as students share their writing with fellow students and the community. From left are third-grade students Michael Romero and Gerardo Navarro-Zamorano.
This all came from the students writing efforts, and at the suggestion of first-year teacher Tifny Dunaway. She had experience with the program and brought the idea to Curiel. This is the first year that the student writings have been published in a book. Third grade teacher Lynn Brown said the students had about a month to work on an open-ended assignment about personal narrative, and that the assignment came out at the beginning of the school year.
Library Night has grown so popular that they have moved it to the school gymnasium, and plenty were in attendance to hear the tales of heroism, future plans, and exciting events. All of the third-graders who attended read their story to the assembled community. Many stories drew aahhs,Free legal information. laughs, and often had the audience on the edge of their seatswould the superhero be strong and fearless enough to rescue the kitten?
There were heroes, dreamers, and future writers at this past Reading Night at Curiel Primary School.
To showcase their accomplishment, they invited the community to Reading Night, which is held during Library Night at the Primary School.
They are much bolder writers now, she said. Also, the students contributed drawings to go with each story, and this added a colorful element to the publications. The students weighed whether to use a white background, and how much color toReading Night brings out inner authors of Curiel students - trivalleycentralcom Education use, and compared the differences in the potential presentations, as well as offering constructive criticism to their fellow authors before their books went to the publisher.
Family Liaison Teresita Valdez said that district monies paid for the project, but she will be looking at how to fund it again next year. In addition to this months authors program, Valdez purchased a couple of boxes of scholastic books to give away to students who attended for Library Night. Students get a new book to take home to create a library of their own, she said.
Next month, Library Night will be held at the Eloy Junior High School and the students will put on a play, Valdez said. Library Night is for all of the students in the entire Eloy Elementary School District. The events are usually held the third Thursday of every month and the next one will be on Feb. 21 at the Junior High School.
Brown said that the students confidence and ability to write grew with the project, and that they were all much better writers for it.
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To create the book, a theme was agreed upon and the students each wrote their own piece on the topic. Each narrative was compiled and so each book was created. The authors were mostly comfortable and confident when they took the authors seat and held the microphone in their hands as they read their own stories.
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Tales From the Third Grade was one of the stories that authors from Curiel Primary School shared at Reading Night last Thursday night. Each third grade class presented their published book and the themes ranged from third grade tales, to The Most Exciting Thing That Ever Happened to Me, to stories about what they will do when they grow up, and stories with themes about superheroes, including When I Was a Superhero.
Author Jose Rivas reads from his story that is part of the book, The Most Exciting Thing That Ever Happened to me.
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These young authors, all from Curiels third-grade classes, have worked on a narrative project that has culminated in four different bound books, one from each third-grade classroom.
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Parents got in the spirit of things at Reading Night at Curiel last week and took the opportunity to read with their children. From left, student John Pagnani reads with his mom.
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