| 1. Vocabulary Stories Select one or more
vocabulary words you would like to master. Draw a picture that would
depict those words. Write the story. 2. Phonics Stories Select one or
more phonics elements, such as short a or the ch consonant team, etc. Draw
a picture that would depict those phonic elements. Write the story.
3. Parts of Speech Stories Select one or more parts of speech, such
as nouns or verbs, etc. Draw a picture that would depict those parts of
speech. Write the story.
4. Spelling Words Stories Select one or more spelling words you would
like to master. Draw a picture that would depict those words. Write the
story.
5. Capitalization and Punctuation Stories Select one or more
capitalization and/or punctuation rules. Draw a picture that would depict
those rules. Write the story.
6. Alphabet Stories Challenge yourself to write the shortest sentence
or paragraph you can that includes all of the letters of the alphabet.
Draw a picture that would depict it. Write it.
7. Number Sentences. Roll two dice. That is the number of words you are
allowed to use in writing a sentence. Draw a picture that illustrates the
sentence. For a longer activity, roll the dice several times. Each roll
indicates the number of words for a sentence. Write the sentences in order
and then draw a picture illustrating what you wrote.
8. Todays Journal Each day, draw a picture of something interesting
that happened. Write about it.
9. Habits Stories Determine a positive habit you would like to
master, such as getting prepared for the next day the night before. Draw a
picture of yourself successfully carrying out that habit. Write about it.
10. Information Memorization Stories Determine information you need
to memorize, such as the first five presidents of the United States or how
to reduce fractions to lowest terms, etc. Draw a picture about it. Write
about it. |