For today’s writing prompt, your child will pretend to be a pioneer traveling west. Ask her write about who will go with her in her covered wagon.
Pioneer Days – Lesson 6
I can write about who will go west.
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.1)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Talk about who all traveled west in the covered wagon. Ask your child to pretend she is a pioneer going west. Ask her to write about who will go west with her. 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 you enjoyed reading her story.