T-Rex is always a favorite dinosaur of children. So your child is sure to enjoy researching and writing facts about the king of the dinosaurs.
Digging Up Dinosaurs – Lesson 28
“I can write about T-Rex.”
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.2)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Help your child to research dinosaurs with non-fiction books. Talk about T-Rex facts. For this writing prompt, ask your child to write about a tyrannosaurus. 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 awesome illustrations and how you liked his T-Rex fact.