Slow Writing Description Gatherer

We love using Slow Writing as a way to complete our 5 Sentence Challenges.

Here is a disaster picture from the North Island Flooding and a new sheet to help us unpack the ideas.

We will post our writing on the blog for you to see once it has been editied and is ready to publish.

What amazing writing!

I was reading these on my teacher blog this weekend and was so impressed that I have to post them on our class blog.  I know some of them have been posted before but they are well worth reading again.

Tor: 
I was siting down reading my book when all of a sudden the wind, which had started as a light breeze,  started blowing violently.  I pretended that nothing  was happening  but as quick as a boulder falling,  pages were blowing past me.  I wondered if I was heavy enough then suddenly I was hovering and then-blown away.  It felt like a dream and I was clinging onto a street post in the middle of a tornado.  Bicycles flew past.  Would I ever survive to see if I could rescue my books?

Liam:

Morris was sitting on his veranda all of a sudden it started blowing.

Loudly the wind horribly threw Morris accross the veranda as he anxiously gets scared.

Howling, the wind sucked up Morris' books high into the sky.

Before long even the house was gone.

MORRIS was sad.

Will he survive this drama?

Jess:
Morris Lessmore sat amongst piles of books like crooked towers, getting lost in a story when the sky suddenly turned black.  An angry howling wind whipped up the colourful books like they were a flock of flapping birds.  
Dangerously caught by the wind, Morris' hat danced merrily on his head.  While he was clutching his chair, the wind skidded him across the deck, making his eyes widen in fear.  Sucked right up! 
Swirling around amongst the books and houses, Morris wondered when or if the winds would ever let him go.

Morris Lessmore

Morris was sitting on his veranda all of a sudden it started blowing.

Loudly the wind horribly threw Morris accross the veranda as he anxiously gets scared.

Howling, the wind sucked up Morris' books high into the sky.

Before long even the house was gone.

MORRIS was sad.

Will he survive this drama?

Slow writing - follow the rules for each sentence

I have a great surprise for the Year 4 students - you Year 5's already know and love this story!

We will be doing some slow writing based around the storm in  'The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore' this week.  

I can't wait to see it published on your blogs!

Slow Writing:
1.  Appeal to the senses
2.  Use three adjectives
3.  Start with an adverb
4.  Contain a connective
5.  Use only three words
6.  Be a question