Second grade authors at Westchester Torah Academy celebrated this week at their Authors’ Dinner—picnic style in the gym! The students learned about how stories are written by reading and listening to many books during the year. Then they established their own story problem for their own books. They created characters and settings for their original stories and were then ready to write. Through many drafts, teacher-student conferences, edits and rewrites, the authors wrote their own original complete stories. Parents helped bind their books and the students read and presented their creations at the event.