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Show " I j , j i " ' Jff V fc h j ' . r ( ' ' V j j Kym Symes, a sixth grader in Judy Garff's class, brushes up on her writing skills. Reading Elementary School held a Writing Discovery Day to help children learn and practice many different types of writing. Reading is writing CENTERVILLE Reading Elementary recently held a "Writing Discovery Day." It was the culminating activity to a year that has stressed writing to students from kindergarten to sixth grade. With the help of many parent volunteers, the students were involved in-volved throughout the day with writing activities of all kinds. Students, teachers and parents were busy with dictated stories, Haiku poetry, creative writing, readers theaters, creating a newspaper, role playing, descriptive writing, cartoon captions, creative books for use in the library and various other activities. The day ended with the release of large classroom balloons containing individual notes about favorite books. |