In this clip, you really Aaron really working on nurturing his "brief." He has written part of his story and even tells you he has written "to be continued" at the bottom of the page. On another page, he has written why it was an important event. And finally, he has started making a list of all the important things that he needs to include in his final piece.
Aaron does a nice job talking through his feelings about writing and thoughts on genre. He is right on with his explanations.
| TEACHER: | Can you tell us a little bit about what you're writing about? |
| STUDENT: | I'm writing my soccer and right now I'm writing about what is the most important part of the story. |
| TEACHER: | So first you wrote about soccer and then - |
| STUDENT: | First I wrote about soccer and then I wrote, to be continued, and this is when I told like why it was important to me. Then I'm writing about the most important parts like that I felt were so big. |
| TEACHER: | Could you tell us what you're going to write about? |
| STUDENT: | It's when I scored three goals in a row. |
| TEACHER: | Wow! Do you like writing? |
| STUDENT: | Yeah. |
| TEACHER: | What do you like about it? |
| STUDENT: | I like about it like, you can write anything you want, like information. |
| TEACHER: | What do you mean by information? |
| STUDENT: | I like to tell about different animals. I'm a big expert on that. |
| TEACHER: | Yeah? |
| STUDENT | Yeah. |
| TEACHER: | Do you like to use details when you are doing your writing? |
| STUDENT: | Yeah. |
| TEACHER: | What do you want to work on the most in your writing? What would you like to improve? |
| STUDENT: | The narrative. |
| TEACHER: | The narrative. You want to improve your narrative writing. So what's that mean? |
| STUDENT: | I want to learn more about it. I already know about it that much. And in kindergarten and first grade we didn't really focus on it because a narrative is kind of hard. |
| TEACHER: | Can you tell me what narrative is? |
| STUDENT: | It is writing a story about you. |
| TEACHER: | Okay, great. About personal experiences, like your soccer. |
| STUDENT: | Yeah. |
| TEACHER: | So you want to get a little bit better about telling stories about yourself and things that you've done. |
| STUDENT: | I've written lots of narratives in here. |