Today your child will write facts about the sun in his writing journal.
Outer Space – Lesson 24
“I can write about the sun.”
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.2)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Read a non-fiction book about the sun and stars. Discuss facts about the sun. For this writing prompt, ask your child to write facts about the sun. 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 his non-fiction story.