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Now that we have had some practice and experience creating our first wikipage, we decided to take our writing to the next step and added it to our new wikipage.

Together with other K-6 classrooms (that I connected with through a teacher's NING), we worked on a project that incorporated writing and fluency.

In class we watched a version of Maurice Sendak's, __Where The Wild Things Are__. We listened for the tone and expression the narrator used as he read us the book. We then compared it to how we, as fifth graders, read aloud. Following the story, we had a class discussion on figurative langauge and examples of how we use similies, metaphors, hyperboles, idioms, & personification. As we discussed more, the students came up with other types of figurative language and our discussion sky-rocketed.

The main activity for this lesson was to write the next 10 sentences of the story. Why only 10 sentences? Well that's simple. We were only able to write 10 sentences, because Maurice Sendak wrote __Where the Wild Things Are__ in just 10 sentences.

We worked in 3 small groups and you can find our fantastic, incredibly creative stories (with illustrations) on the navigation bar to the left.

As a teacher, I have to say, this was one of the most engaging lessons for my 5th grade students. I was beyond impressed with their ability to brainstorn as a class and in small groups, work collaboratively with their peers, create & edit their writing, even relying on their vocabulary books, dictionaries, and the thesaurus to really spice up their writing.