IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

A beautiful teachable moment came today in such a natural way during Story Workshop. After I read our story to begin Story Workshop and reviewed our new structure for Story Workshop, many of the children wanted to make final drafts of their stories they started this week. We were not anticipating so many of the students wanting to continue to work on their story so it was a great surprise to see so many students interested in it. I gathered Danielle, Noah, Malachi, and Ashu (four friends who wanted to do a final draft) and we did something called a Peer Critique. We looked at each friend’s first draft as well as their photograph from their planning session. While looking at each friend’s work, the children engaged in a discussion without much prompting from me discussing what they liked about each friend’s work as well as any questions they had. It was such a beautiful moment because they were editing\revising each other’s work but in such a gentle and respectful way! They only had a couple of minutes to work on their final drafts so the bulk of it will be next week, but I was so proud of their discussion as well as how respectful they were to each other!

I am really looking forward to doing this more so we can grow as critical thinkers!!

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