Author's Chair Celebration + HFW Set 7 Review

HFW Set 7 dictation: teacher dictates 10 of the 25 words; children spell on whiteboards.

• Read each word slowly + in a sentence
• Affirm correct spellings; note misses for spiral_review

Today we celebrate. Each writer will sit in the AUTHOR'S CHAIR and read ONE paragraph from your published narrative aloud. Pick the paragraph that holds your strongest craft. The audience listens, then offers ONE compliment-with-a-quote. We are not editing today — we are honoring the work. Author's Chair etiquette: writer reads with steady voice; audience listens all the way through; one peer offers a quoted compliment ('I liked when you wrote ___ because ___'); writer takes a bow. After Author's Chair, we celebrate HFW Set 7 — the 25 new words you've worked on all term. You will spell 15 of them in a quick dictation, and then we add them to the word wall for permanent retrieval.

• The compliment quotes a specific line.

  model Teacher reads: 'Babushka whispered, You can do this, little one. My hands stopped shaking. I started over.' Peer compliment: 'I liked when you wrote BABUSHKA WHISPERED because it shows how gentle she was at the peak.'

  prompt Teacher models a 1-minute Author's Chair read of a sample paragraph and shows compliment-with-a-quote routine.

• What does Author's Chair feel like?
• What's the one job of the audience?

• One by one, each child reads one paragraph at Author's Chair. After each reader, one peer offers a compliment-with-a-quote.

  scaffold Author's Chair designated; bookmark for compliment-with-quote phrasing
• Word-wall ceremony: HFW Set 7 cards added to the word wall, with each child placing one card on the wall.

  scaffold Word-wall layout already prepared

M-3-F-WR-22-A Photograph

Reference photo of an Author's Chair setup in a Grade-3 classroom: a special chair (slightly larger, painted or decorated) at the front of a circle of peer chairs. A small microphone (optional, low-tech) on a stand beside the chair. Behind the chair, the publication wall displays the booklets. Multicultural classroom, warm lighting, eye-level shot. Print-ready 4x6 photo for setup reference.

• Write one sentence using 2 HFW Set 7 words (e.g., 'I was learning about the world.').
• Star one moment from today's Author's Chair you'll remember.

• Thank your audience.
• Predict: in spring we begin INFORMATIONAL writing — telling readers about a topic.

• Tonight, tell one family member about your favorite line from someone ELSE's narrative at today's Author's Chair.