For this writing prompt, your child will pretend to be an astronaut and write about what his job in space would be.
Outer Space – Lesson 10
“I can write about an astronaut.”
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.2)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Read a non-fiction book about the life of an astronaut in space. Discuss facts about astronauts. For this writing prompt, ask your child to write a fact about a job he would do as an astronaut in space. 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 cool illustrations and how you liked story.