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Our first writing workshop unit is drawing. We work on drawing lines, drawing shapes, drawing faces, drawing people, filling up the white space, adding details, adding words, various illustration techniques and building stamina. We will end our drawing unit with a Mo Willems author study and a hot dog party. This is a great resource for this unit...



this is our chart for our drawing unit...
{Jake assured me that is an extra fin on the back of the whale...just in case you were wondering:)}

 books that we have been reading for our mini lessons...
I also have a lot of "how to draw" books that the children like to use. 

Check out my $1 anchor charts on TpT!
Here are some that support drawing...
Mrs. Bell

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10 comments:

  1. Sarah9/6/11, 10:41 PM

    WOW! I really like that idea. The crazy thing is that it seem sooo simple! I usually take the "end" of drawing a picture to tell a story but I LOVE the idea of just drawing to DRAW!
    Thanks for sharing!
    Sarah
    www.mrshetrick.com
    shetrick@gmail.com

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  2. Jonelle Bell9/6/11, 10:59 PM

    Sarah, the best part about this unit is that it builds their confidence for illustrating their stories later. I no longer hear I can't draw that:)

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  3. Linda McCardle9/10/11, 9:43 PM

    I made the anchor chart with my kiddos this week and they loved it! I am going to make a checklist to go in their writing folder, if it will be okay with you I will post it and give you the credit for a GREAT idea!
    Linda

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  4. Mrs. Larremore9/18/11, 7:21 PM

    Jonelle- I love how we think alike!! I recently purchased the same writing book!!

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  5. Jonelle Bell9/18/11, 9:53 PM

    Linda, I am looking forward to your post! It would be fun to share drawings with each other. April, I so wish that your classroom was next to mine so that we could just share books:) Hope you are having a great year!
    Jonelle

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  6. Unknown9/22/12, 9:49 AM

    I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!!! Do you have a copy of your drawing unit to see daily lessons somewhere on your blog??

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  7. Monica7/24/13, 11:59 AM

    thank you for this great chart idea, its soooo important for children to end up feeling they can do a drawing of just about anything they ca think of and feel proud about it!!! I love your blog!!!!!

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  8. Monica7/24/13, 12:01 PM

    Hi Thanks for this great idea on drawing and journals, Its sooo important to help children in this pre-writing stage,where some need lots of encouragement and then they can feel they can draw anything they can think of, and feel proud enough to show it and feel it.
    I love your blog Thanks for the poster Im sure gonna do it with them!

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  9. Monica7/24/13, 12:02 PM

    thank you for this great chart idea, its soooo important for children to end up feeling they can do a drawing of just about anything they ca think of and feel proud about it!!! I love your blog!!!!!

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  10. Monica7/24/13, 12:02 PM

    thanks for the great idea!!! children love to draw!

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