For today’s writing prompt, your child will write facts about pigs.
Barnyard Buddies – Lesson 4
I can write about a pig.
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.2)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Read a nonfiction book about pigs or research pigs together online. Ask your child to write facts about pigs in his journal. 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 great illustrations and how you learned facts about pigs from his nonfiction story.