In today’s writing prompt, your child will get to draw and write about a funny alien.

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Outer Space – Lesson 14

“I can write about a funny alien.”

Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.2)

Materials: journal, pencil, crayons

Procedures: Talk about words that describe the alien in the story. For this writing prompt, ask your child to write about an alien, using describing words. 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 great illustrations and how much you enjoyed reading her story.