Chapter 4 and 5

the five senses in writing was most interesting to me. I never thought about teaching your student's the write the 5 senses in. A story is really a great story when you can see the story in your head, but it is an amazing story when you can get all 5 senses. I never thought that maybe a student might have to be taught to add sounds etc. into their story. It makes for a more enjoyable and helps the story come alive. Many children has their own feelings into stories because children are very much ego centric when story telling, but to be able to add someone else's feelings into a story, or to explain their own feelings more deeply would make the story more likely to connect with the reader. This is some thing that is important that we try to teach children how to go about finding the feelings of themselves and others in their stories and then finding a way to write them down.

In chapter 5 for me it just reinforced the importance of teaching children correct punctuation and grammar. I think what I learned most from this chapter and in class is that you can be a little forgiving of mistakes in the younger grades because you don't want to just mark up their papers and discourage them from writing. So while these things are important it is probably best to wait until a later years in elementary school to be overly critical of grammar and punctuation.