Talofa Lava Bloggers,
This week we were very lucky to have the New Zealand author Philippa Werry visit our syndicate via video call. She has written lots of books, including picture books, novels and some of the readers we use at school including stories in the school journal. She was really interesting and humorous, giving us lots of great advice and information. One interesting fact was that her first story was published in the newspaper when she was 6 years old. It was still saved and glued into a scrapbook that she showed us, very precious!
One important message that she shared with us was how important it is to edit our writing. Taking the time to do this before you publish is really important! We got to ask lots of questions to find out about her job and some of the connections that she has to other New Zealand authors.
Finally, she read us the start of one of her stories. It is called, "The best skateboarder in school" and you can find it in School Journal Part 1 Number 3 2003. We really enjoyed this and we are looking forward to exploring more of her stories. A special thank you to Mr Hing-Windsor for organising this for us.
Have you had a visit from a school author? Do you have a question or comment? We'd love some feedback below.
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Thank you for sharing your learning. We can see your writing has been edited, you have added lots of detail in your writing and added punctuation and capital letters. We have never had a visit from an author but it sounds amazing. We are learning to edit our writing too.
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