How To Writing - Yummy!

We just finished up our "How To" Writing Unit.  It is always so much fun.

We began by asking ourselves, "What is a How to Story and What does one look like?"  To explore this question, students logged onto their Raz-kids accounts and found a special assignment waiting for them - a collection of how to stories which included:

• We Make Cookies
• Making Salsa
• We Make a Snowman
• Making Pizza
• Grow Tomatoes in Six Steps
• Making Rice

We also began reading How To Books for Read Alouds.  Here are just a few of my new books purchased through Amazon.  Students loved the How to Babysit a Grandpa one! 

 

After exploring what how to stories look like and sound like, we began our own.

Day 1 & 2:  How to Blow a Bubble

 

They didn't know learning to write could be so much fun!

Day 3 & 4:  How to Make a Smore

 

After eating real smores and making foam smores, students wrote their how to piece.

Day 5 & 6:  How to Make Kool-aid

 

Students planned their how to story on stickie notes first.  This made it easier to correct any mistakes in the order of the steps.

 

 Of course, we made Kool-aid to test out their writing!

And last but not least, my favorite....

Day 7 & 8:  How to Make a Pizza

This time, I wrote out the recipe for students to follow. They followed the recipe to make their own pizzas and then tried to change the recipe into a How-to Story.

I LOVE this unit!  Hope you enjoyed and didn't get too hungry!