Exercise Repack — P1 English Writing

This exercise focuses on descriptive language and using the five senses. Part 1: Vocabulary Warm-up

• Prompt: "What did you do on Saturday?"
• Task: They write two sentences. It doesn't matter if it is boring ("I ate rice."). The goal is fluency, not creativity.

• Key feature: Fill-in-the-blanks with a word bank.
• Goal: Subject-verb agreement (e.g., "She runs" not "She run").

1. Fine Motor Control (The physical act): Can they grip the pencil? Are they forming letters from top to bottom?
2. Phonetic Awareness (The sound): Can they stretch out a word (e.g., "d-o-g") and write the corresponding letters?
3. Sight Words (The memory): Can they instantly spell high-frequency words (the, and, I, you, is, to)?
4. Capitalization (The rule): Do they know that "i" is not a word; it must be "I"?
5. Spacing (The visual): Are they leaving "finger spaces" between words?

• Issue: The text looks like one long word: "Thecatissleeping."
• Fix: Give them a popsicle stick. After every word, they place the stick down as a space holder.