Writing Journal

The Writing Journal provides space for your child’s responses to the provided prompts, or their own reactions and descriptions of the story and its connection to their life.

Writing and Conversation Prompts

Help your reader respond to these prompts in their Writing Journal or in conversation with you.

• Describe what happened at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the story through writing and drawing a picture.

• Talk with your young learner about siblings and how siblings can look up to one another. That could lead into a discussion about other people that your young learner looks up to in their own lives (the way that Kyla’s sister looked up to her and imitated her).

• Discuss role role models, being a role model, helping out, and family.

• Have your young learner write in their journals about who they consider a role model and why.

• If your young learner is an only child, talk to them about what other family member or friend they look up to.

Pay Attention to Handwriting

After enjoying and talking about the content of their writing, look for any letters in the Building Writers or Writing Journal that are less legible. Point out a model of that letter in Building Writers and coach your learner to write a line of that letter in the Writing Journal, with coaching as needed, to improve legibility. To access the Handwriting Without Tears Letter Formation Charts go to LWTears.com/letter-number-formation-charts

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Building Writers

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startsintheStartingCorner.stopsmakesaBigCurve. inthecorner. walksawayonthebottom.startsintheStartingCorner.makesmakesaLittleCurveto anotherLittleCurvetothebottomcorner. startsintheStartingCorner.

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startsintheStartingCorner.goesisababybear.downtocurlupinthecorner. ishibernating.

startsintheStartingCorner.makesaLittleLineacross betterslidedown.” doesn’tisdifferent.likecorners. beginsstartsatthetopcenter. withSandthen goeshome. hasissospecial. makesitsowncorner.paLittleCurveand tothecorner. makesaBigLinedown. usestwoplaces.

©2020LearningWithoutTears startsintheStartingCorner.themakesaLittleLineacrosssays,top. “ betterslidedown.” doesn’tisdifferent.likecorners. beginsstartsatthetopcenter. withSandthen goeshome. hasissospecial. makesitsowncorner.paLittleCurveand tothecorner. makesaBigLinedown. 0comesusestwoplaces. first. startsisnext.atthetopcenter.isfinished. ©2018LearningWithoutTears

Continue to help your child improve their writing ability by using Building Writers. Building Writers helps children develop key narrative, informational, and opinion writing skills by providing a step-by-step model to build confidence. Building Writers includes an easy-to-follow writing checklist to help children develop good writing habits.

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In addition to our Summer Reading and Writing Packs, we also have free resources to support your students. Be sure to visit our site for letter and number formation charts, strategies to build sight word automaticity, and much more! LWTears.com/resources/summer-learning