Katrina McKelvey: Farmer Charlie and the Chicken Chasers

Katrina McKelvey has written and illustrated the first two pages of a picture book, and is inviting your students to write the rest of the story. She has shared her teaching ideas and writing techniques, and is encouraging students to have fun writing about an ingenious invention that could help farmers and chickens around the world! How will they solve Farmer Charlie’s dilemma and what are the chicken chasers? Your students are the co-authors and they decide what happens next!