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QUESTIONS IN THE PREP CLASS

The Preps have been working hard on their writing this term. Last term, we focused on our letter formation and becoming more automatic with writing these letters. 

This week, the Prep students learned to ask and write question sentences. It is as important for the students to learn how to generate questions as it is for them to learn how to answer them.

When learning anything new, with writing, I like to present it orally first to the Preps rather than in writing. Once the students are familiar with the new concepts through oral practice, we then practice it with written examples.

The students were introduced to the skill of developing questions by using something that was very familiar to them which was our story of the week, ‘The Most Magnificent Thing. I used this book because it was well-known to them.

The students enjoyed thinking of questions that they wanted to ask the main character in the book who is ‘the little girl’. Once they understood that a question sentence is asking you something and always ends in a question mark, they started to create their own questions.

The Preps worked in small groups for some shared writing and came up with some amazing question sentences can be seen below.

As a surprise for the students, ‘the little girl sent back a short video saying hello and answered their written. The students were amazed that ‘the little girl’ knew their names and answered their questions. The students have asked to watch the video over and over.  Below is the video.