Writing with Intention and Emotion

This week in Writer's Workshop we have been working on writing with intention and emotion! We learned that authors have a purpose for their writing and that they want to make their reader feel a certain way.

We decided that books like Diary of a Wimpy Kid are written to make us laugh out loud, while books like Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day are written to make us remember a bad day we have had and how sad / mad / annoyed we felt.

We are adding emotion into our own writing. Many of us wrote about a time that we felt nervous (a ski trip, being late for football practice, the first day of school), and some of us wrote about bad days (sisters being noisy, being late for school). We are all writing with intention and emotion. Make sure to check in with your writer to see what emotion they are making their reader feel!