At the beginning of the year, we certainly focus on making new friends and maintaining positive friendships. Friendship and kindness will be a year long theme, something we need to constantly develop and enhance. We, of course, also have third grade reading content standards to master. I just love how beautifully the friendship theme and the important third grade standard of understanding main idea and detail come together in Nancy Carlson's delightful picture book How to Lose All Your Friends.
While the students loved the book, they were appalled by the girl's behavior. We decided to do a rewrite! Together the students put together the main ideas of how to be a good friend. They came up with five main ideas:
1. Smile
2. Share
3. Be Kind.
4. Use manners.
5. Stand up for others.
Students got back into their teams. Each team took one of these new key star ideas and made supporting details for the main idea. Then, they presented their ideas for the rewrite to the class.
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