In this journal entry, your child will write about something that makes him feel angry.
Digging Up Dinosaurs – Lesson 24
“I can write about what makes me feel angry.”
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.1)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Talk about Zip’s temper tantrum and what could have made him so angry. For this writing prompt, ask your child to write a story about something that makes him feel angry. 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 clever illustrations and how you learned something about his feelings through his story.