For this writing prompt, your child will write facts about baby chicks.
Down on the Farm – Lesson 16
I can write facts about chicks.
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.2)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Read a non-fiction book about baby chicks. Ask your child to write facts about chicks in her journal. 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 cute illustrations and how you liked learning about baby chicks.