Halloween Procedural Writing

We have been talking about procedural writing this week.  

It's all about writing the steps or 'How to..' do something.

We focused on the transition words First, Next, Then, and Finally to keep 

their work organized and flowing.

Together we acted out 'How to Trick-or-Treat with costumes

and everything!

This gave the students a very concrete example to help them  in their

writing.  They each wrote an amazing 'How to Trick-or-Treat piece!

HOW YOU CAN HELP AT HOME

Have your child practice 'How to..' writing in their Read for Fun, Write for Fun books.

The goal is to write a minimum of 4 sentences.  One sentence starts with first, the next sentence begins with next, another with then and the last sentence begins with finally.  If your child finds writing a breeze, encourage them to have more than 4 steps in the process using other transition words like, after that, second, another thing, etc.