Boogs loves to be read to. He is sometimes hesitant with reading. But, writing is a whole different story. He does not enjoy writing. Over the summer, we have been using up some of the remaining pages in his kindergarten writer's workshop notebook. About 2 - 3 times a week, I have asked him to write three sentences and draw a picture. Some of his excuses to avoid writing are brilliant. I often write in my own notebook during our writing time to model writing for him. This is what he wrote today:
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Translation: I like summer. Summer is fun. I don't need to go to school.
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I decided to play our treasure hunt game this morning to encourage him to read the clues on each card and to write clue cards for me. To play treasure hunt, you write down a clue to the hidden location of another clue, which leads to another then another clue until you reach the treasure.
Boogs loves to play this game. He had to read the clues to me before he could go find them. (Please ignore my messy house.)
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| The treasure - a homemade popsicle. |
Then it was Boogs turn to hide something for me. Here are a couple of his clues:
My treasure - a half eaten ring pop. Boogs told me, "You can take a couple of licks on it, but don't eat the whole thing."
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| YUM! |
What things are you doing to encourage your reluctant writers?
