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.

• If you could be any character in the book, which would you be and why?

• What do you like or dislike about this book?

• What lesson is this story teaching you?

• How did Yasmin solve the problem in the story?

• What do the illustrations tell you about where Yasmin lives?

• If you could rename the title, what would you call it?

• Why did the author write this text (to persuade, entertain, inform, etc.)?

• Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

• What part of the book surprised you the most?

• Write about your hero and three reasons why that person is your hero.

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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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.

Additional Activities

Learn about Pakistan through books from your local library or by doing an online search together. There is a short glossary at the end of the book with words in Urdu, one of the languages used in Pakistan, as well

For free story resources (e.g., interview with author, book guides, activities and lessons with cultural

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 teach!