Six+Word+Stories

//"From the biggest challenges, to the smallest details, to the ordinary truths...it's your life in just six words."//
That's how six-word stories have been described! As we looked at six-word stories, we used two of the comprehension strateies we learn about and use each year: //determining importance & inferring// We read Ernest Hemingway's famous six-word story: **"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."** Students inferred to figure out meaning. Our discussion of this short text included many questions like: //How do we know what it's about?// //Which words help us to figure it out?// and then... //As writers, how do __we__ decide which words are most important to include, especially if we can only include a few?// After practicing six-word stories in their Writing Notebooks, children determined which to include in their collage projects. They sorted their choices into those that are complete sentences (on blue paper) and those that are not complete sentences (on purple paper.)

Six Word Stories
[|• Animoto]of student examples (K-7) of six-word stories