Meow! Children love these little four-legged furballs! For today’s writing prompt, your child will write about a cat.
Barnyard Buddies – Lesson 12
I can write about a cat.
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.2)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Read a nonfiction story about a cat or research cats together online. Ask your child to write facts about a cat. Encourage him to use spaces between words, punctuation at the end of the sentence and to use letter-sounds that he hears in words. Write the real words under his sentence. Then he will illustrate his story.
Conclusion: Have your child read his story to you again. Talk about his nice illustrations and how you liked his interesting cat facts.