Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 27 · Part 1: Part I: The elementary course
26. Composition: a day out
Goal: Your child writes a story or description about an outing.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Lesson 27 has a picture of a man and a little boy with some children, with questions, and prompts for stories about a drive, a picnic, a fishing trip and a walk by a river.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask: In "Swimming is fun," is swimming a participle or a participial noun?
Talk about the picture
Ask the book's questions:
Where do you think these children have been?
What are the man and the little boy talking about?
Also ask what time of day it might be. Let your child give reasons.
Choose a topic
Pick one of the book's prompts:
Write a story about a drive to a grove, a lake, or the sea-shore.
Describe a fishing excursion.
Describe a walk on the bank of a river.
The book also suggests the last picnic your child went to, and a story about a foolhardy boy who climbed a tree he was told not to.
Plan out loud
Ask: Who went? Where? What did you see? What happened? How did it end?
Write
Write eight to ten sentences. Use at least one participle ("Running ahead, we...").
Read and check
Your child reads it aloud. Check capitals, end marks, quotation marks if anyone speaks.
Use it today
Tell the story to someone who wasn't there.
Answers to the book's problems
Compositions will vary.
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