The______ I Followed_______

As we are winding down the school year I am getting to do some activities I never got to all year! One of my favorite and simple writing activities goes with the story The Night I Followed the Dog by Nina Laden

In my lesson, we do some prethinking activities before reading the book. Students think about what a dog might do when they are not home. We also think about what might a dog do in a story to make it funny! Then we watch the story online! It is free to listen to on Storyonline.

Once they listen to the story we talk about it and what made it so funny! Then we begin brainstorming their own ideas for a story! 

I write this on the board

The______ I Followed_______

I tell they they can pick anything to write about!

An animal

a pet

a friend

a person

a family member

And they had to pick a time of day! It didn't have to be night! It could have been:

the afternoon

morning

evening

My kids came up with some great things! I had

The night I followed my Parrot

The morning I followed my horse

The night I followed the Alien

The afternoon I followed my teacher

The list goes on and on! 

These stories were so good! The whole class was laughing! This is by far my favorite one. You just HAVE to read it!

 

Isn't that awesome! 

So I made up a unit last year and it is availabe in both my stores!

I will give away 3 copies of this writing activity to the first 3 comments! 

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Have a great night everyone!