Our class will be structured as a beginner's environment.  Students will be encouraged to practice writing the story down, illustrating, and sharing their drawings with the class.  If a student cannot write (or copy) the words in the story from my screen I have them draw pictures to tell the story and label those pictures. 

The class will begin with a mini-lesson including, but not limited to: sentence structure, story structure,  graphic organizers, brainstorming, sight words, setting, and...