Third Grade, Writing, Set Two

We are continuing with learning the lower case cursive letters. In Set One, cursive seemed to be really hard for K., but now she is doing much better and really enjoying it. We did an activity all but one week.

Writing Project
The goal of the writing project during this set was for K. to write the ending of a fairy tale. Below is the process we went through to get to that point. We took two weeks to accomplish step 1 and two weeks for step 2. We only worked on this one day a week.

1. I read an entire fairy tale to K. (The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood) and we filled out a work page with the
• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Setting
• Problem
• Events
• Solution
• Supporting Characters
2. I read most of a fairy tale to K. (A Gift from the Heart) -- enough so she could fill out everything except the "solution".
3. K. wrote her ending to the fairy tale.
4. I read the ending from the book.