Today your child will research facts about the brontosaurus and choose a cool fact to write in her journal.
Digging Up Dinosaurs – Lesson 32
“I can write about the brontosaurus.”
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 and talk about the brontosaurus. For this writing prompt, ask your child to write about a brontosaurus. Encourage her to use spaces between words, punctuation at the end of the sentence and to use letter-sounds that she hears in words. Write the real words under her sentence. Then she will illustrate her story.
Conclusion: Have your child read her story to you again. Talk about her realistic illustrations and how you learned something from her non-fiction story.