The learner will:

• edit the story by adding more exciting nouns, verbs, descriptive adjectives, adverbs and artwork.
  
  
• edit a classmate's work.
  
  
• consider the needs of the recipients when preparing the booklet.

Anticipatory Set:
Write on the board, "Natasha (or a name appropriate to your school) went to look for her pet" (or an excerpt from the modeled lesson from yesterday). Ask the students what they pictured in their minds. Did they picture a young girl, a "mom," an aged person, a grandma? How did she go looking for the pet? Did she look frantically, or did she dash from tree to bush? What kind of pet is she looking for? Describe the pet—is it young, brown, hyper, big?

 
• Use suggestions from the class to clarify the sentence and make it more interesting. Provide time for the learners to do this with the sentences in their stories.
  
  
• Create a classroom wall chart by having the students brainstorm as many adverbs and adjectives as possible in five minutes. Prompt their thinking by suggesting a verb or noun and then asking them to brainstorm as many modifiers as they can. Suggest additional nouns and verbs to keep ideas flowing rapidly. Show students the options they have for adding interesting words by using the chart.
  
  
• Ask students to give an example of how they added clarity and interest to their work.
  
  
• As part of the writing process, allow the learners to edit their own and their partner's work. They should be using their editing pens/pencils to do editing, so the teacher can see the corrections that are self-edited or peer additions.
  
  
• Ask students if there is anything else they can do to their stories to make them more appealing. Students may make their stories more interesting by adding illustrations that carry out the ideas on the pages. These may be done through the use of computer graphics or colorful hand illustrations.
  
  
• When completed, pages can be stapled to make a booklet. For permanence, pages may be laminated. Remind students to think of the children who will be receiving these booklets and think of why they decided to do this project. They will be providing their time and talent to help others.