Personal Narratives the Allen Say Way

We are approaching our personal narrative unit in writing a little differently than we have in the past.  Inspired by our study of author and illustrator Allen Say, we are beginning our writing by visualizing and illustrating a scene from our story.  This somewhat unconventional ordering of events works for Allen, so we thought we'd give it a try.  Students seemed to relish the artistic aspects of the story-writing process and we are excited to see the finished pieces!