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This text is a personal narrative piece of text, most appropriate for grades K-3.
Possible Minilessons for Writing Workshop:
- Author's note reveals the inspiration for the idea (a perfect generating idea on "everys" in your life)
- Two page spreads
- Background details that allow the reader to get to know the characters and setting more fully
- Repetitive beginnings "We..."
- Patterns on clothing for extra detail in illustrations
- Environmental print makes the scenes come alive (inspiration is from city in New Jersey)
- Compound sentences
- Commas in a series
- Thoughtful and limited dialogue
- Purposeful punctuation: em dashes, exclamation points
- Small moment (entire event is probably 30 minutes long)
- Movement through time is shown through events going on around characters
- Facial expressions to show emotion
- Variety of sentences
- Illustrations tell more than what's on the page in text
- Short amount of texts that makes for a perfect narrative
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