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This week at Washington we went over our Eddie paragraph homework. We discussed the different ways to "read like a reader, and read like a writer". At L & C we learned about this idea and were given the story to do as homework for next week.

At both schools we explored organization through the eyes of a writer. We looked at many different picture books and rather than looking at them as a reader- to get information or read a story, we looked at the books as a writer. We discussed how writers organize their ideas or subject to disseminate the information to the reader.

Students noticed that writers use patterns to organize their thoughts, picture clues, point of veiw or perspective, flashbacks, repetition and many other ways to show or tell their information. The student's assignment for next week is to look at whatever book they are currently reading- or another one of their choice- and find a paragraph or page that they really enjoy and write a sentence or two about how the author has organized it.

They were also given another paragraph of "Eddie Takes Off" to practice "reading like a reader and reading like a writer."