I displayed the emergent reader “About Dinosaurs” on the Smart Board as a shared reading experience (found within the theme unit). We discussed the describing words used within the reader (fast, fierce, tall, etc.). We also worked on the sight words found within the reader: look, at and the. The “ook” word family was also the focus. Together we generated more describing words that could used when writing in their dinosaur shape book. They came up with kid words (rainbow and polka-dotted). A few of their writing samples are displayed in the photographs.
Each day the students will be writing a sentence about information they learned about the different dinosaurs we will be studying.
Picture One – Look at the spike dinosaur (spiky)
Picture Two – Look at the ranbo spike dimund dinosaur (rainbow and diamond)